The Global Handbook of Media Accountability

ISBN-13: 9781032156156 / Miękka / 2023 / 614 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.