The Global Handbook of Media Accountability

Herausgeber: Fengler, Susanne; Karmasin, Matthias; Eberwein, Tobias

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Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together leading scholars to 'de-Westernize' the academic debate on media accountability. Offering reports on the state of media regulation in over thirty countries worldwide, it provides a theoretically informed and comparative analysis of different models of media self-regulation and newsroom transparency around the globe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 614
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1202g
• ISBN-13: 9780367346287
• ISBN-10: 0367346281
• Artikelnr.: 62798149

Autorenporträt

Susanne Fengler is Professor of International Journalism and Director of the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism at TU Dortmund University, Germany. She is the co-editor of Journalists and Media Accountability: An International Study of News People in the Digital Age, Cultures of Transparency: Between Promise and Peril, and The European Handbook of Media Accountability. Tobias Eberwein is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria. He is the co-editor of Media Accountability in the Era of Post-Truth Politics: European Challenges and Perspectives, Mapping Media Accountability - In Europe and Beyond, and The European Handbook of Media Accountability. Matthias Karmasin is Director of the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, and Full Professor at the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. He is the co-editor of Responsibility and Resistance: Ethics in Mediatized Worlds, the Handbook of Integrated CSR Communication, and The European Handbook of Media Accountability.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction 1 Media Accountability: A Global Perspective Part 2
Anglo-Saxon Countries 2 Overview: Anglo-Saxon Countries 3 The United
Kingdom: Consolidation and Fragmentation 4 The United States of America:
The Triumph of Autonomy over Accountability 5 Canada: Fragile Consolidation
Efforts in Media Accountability 6 Australia and New Zealand: A Resurgence
of Public Interest in Media Performance Part 3 Western Europe 7 Overview:
Western Europe 8 Sweden: Old Wine in New Bottles 9 Germany: Beyond the
Beacon 10 Spain: An Expanding Accountability Landscape with Major
Challenges to Overcome 11 Italy: Overregulation, Media Concentration,
Political Transparency, and Economic Crisis Part 4 Central and Eastern
Europe and the Post-Soviet Space 12 Overview: Central and Eastern Europe
and the Post-Soviet Space 13 Poland: Polarized Model of Media
Accountability 14 Hungary: Growing Concentration, Intensifying Control 15
Estonia: From Analog to Digital - One Step Upward but Two Steps Back? 16
Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Authority, the Media, and the Public in
Correlating Multiple Negative Influences 17 Ukraine: Lack of
Self-Regulation in an Oligarch-Driven Media Landscape 18 Russia: Media
Accountability in a Polarized Society 19 Kyrgyzstan: Accountability in a
Constrained Media Environment Part 5 Turkey, Israel, the Mena Region, and
Iran 20 Overview: Turkey, Israel, the MENA Region, and Iran 21 Turkey:
Crackdowns against Journalists are Paralyzing Media Accountability 22
Israel: The Importance of Alternative Media as a Media Accountability
Instrument 23 Morocco: Accountability at a Nascent Stage 24 Tunisia: The
Urgent Need for Media Accountability 25 Egypt: No Horizons for Independent
Media Accountability? 26 Jordan: (Still) Co-Opted and Contained 27 Iraq:
Citizens Finally Taking Media into Account 28 Iran: Centralized Control and
Tattered Accountability Part 6 Sub-Saharan Africa 29 Overview: Sub-Saharan
Africa 30 Kenya: An Exploration of Media Regulation and Accountability 31
Nigeria: Democratic Press, Authoritarian Government ? 32 Ghana: The
Double-Bind of Media Freedom 33 South Africa: Media Accountability in a
Young Democracy 34 Namibia: Fit for Purpose? A Critical Assessment of the
Performance of the Media Ombudsperson System 35 Uganda: The Arduous Quest
for Media Accountability 36 Zimbabwe: Media Accountability in an
Authoritarian Context Part 7 Asia 37 Overview: Asia 38 India: Strong State
and Weak Media Accountability 39 Pakistan: Corporatization and Weak Ethics
40 Myanmar: Potential Diversity, Unfulfilled Hopes 41 Japan: Corporate
Accountability First 42 China: Little Prospect of Enhanced Media
Accountability 43 Hong Kong: Media in Political Turmoil 44 Indonesia: A
Press Council with Exceptional Powers Part 8 Latin America 45 Overview:
Latin America 46 Argentina: Advances and Setbacks in the Democratization of
Communication 47 Brazil: Media Accountability Instruments, Journalists, and
Media Ownership 48 Chile: Double System of Self-Regulation and a few Union
Organizations 49 Mexico: Searching for a More Independent and Democratic
Media System 50 Colombia: Media Observatories and Ombudspersons as Places
of Reflection 51 Costa Rica: Media Responsibility as a Pending Issue Part 9
Conclusions 52 Summary of Country Chapters 53 A Comparative Analysis of
Media Accountability across the Globe: Models, Frameworks, Perspectives