Audience participation for media accountability: instruments and their perception by Spanish citizens
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https://doi.org/10.24137/raeic.7.13.3Keywords:
accountability, media, instruments, perception, citizensAbstract
In the current landscape media accountability is of outmost importance to help restoring the prestige of journalism in the eyes of the public opinion. Accountability is based on three cornerstones: transparency, self-regulation, and public participation. Media companies and other agents beyond them have developed a wide range of established and innovative instruments whose main objective is to look after the responsibility of media and the quality of news output. This research systematizes and classifies the accountability instruments that promote transparency, self-regulation, and users’ participation. Afterwards, 12 instruments that facilitate participation are examined and exemplified. Finally, through 6 focus groups we analyse Spanish citizens’ perceptions of the aforementioned mechanisms.
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