The Catalan language’s current status and prospects in conventional and social media in Andorra

Abstract

Andorra is a small country. Some actually define it as a town-state. Demographically, the country is diverse, with a large number of inhabitants from abroad who have made Andorra their home. This has clear consequences, not necessarily negative ones, and one of them can be seen in the media, which serve an important purpose in spreading knowledge of the language, fostering integration and social cohesion. The large number of Andorran media, all of them produced and designed in Catalan and whittled down in the past decade into a few newspapers – both print and digital – along with radios and TV. These media outlets face two challenges: to continue conveying what is happening in Andorra in Catalan, and to do so while adapting to evolving news consumption habits via social media, where other languagesare predominant.