Media Accountability in the Era of Post-Truth Politics

Tobias Eberwein, Senior Scientist and Research Group Leader at the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, and the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. Susanne Fengler, Professor for International Journalism at the Institute of Journalism, and Director of the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism, TU Dortmund University. Matthias Karmasin, Professor at the Department of Media and Communications, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, and Director of the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt.

Part I: Concepts and classifications of media accountability

1 Theory and practice of media accountability in Europe: an introductory overview

Tobias Eberwein, Susanne Fengler & Matthias Karmasin

2 European models of journalism regulation: a comparative classification

João Miranda & Carlos Camponez

3 The circular impact model: conceptualizing media accountability

Caroline Lindekamp

Part II: Political and societal challenges

4 Media accountability in the era of fake news: journalistic boundary work and its problems in Finland

Heikki Heikkilä & Jari Väliverronen

5 Media accountability instruments concerning immigration and the polarisation of trust in journalism in Sweden

Torbjörn von Krogh & Göran Svensson

6 Press repeat: media self-regulation in the United Kingdom after Leveson

Gordon Ramsay & Martin Moore

7 Media accountability meets media polarisation: a case study from Poland

Michał Głowacki & Michał Kuś

Part III: Economic and organisational challenges

8 Selling short media accountability? The importance of addressing market-driven claims on media freedom

Andrew T. Kenyon, Eva-Maria Svensson & Maria Edström

9 Public value and shared value through the delivery of accountability

Kaisa Sorsa

10 Strengthening media accountability through regulated self-regulation: the Swiss model

Mirco Saner & Vinzenz Wyss

11 Accountability and corporate social responsibility in the media industry: a topic of relevance?

Isabell Koinig, Sandra Diehl, Franzisca Weder & Matthias Karmasin

Part IV: Technological challenges

12 Involvement of private and civil society actors in media regulation processes: a comparison of all European Union member states

Dirk Arnold

13 Emerging structures of control for algorithms on the Internet: distributed agency – distributed accountability

Florian Saurwein

14 Ensuring accountability and transparency in networked journalism: a critical analysis of collaborations between whistle-blowing platforms and investigative journalism

Colin Porlezza & Philip Di Salvo

Part V: Perspectives: rethinking the role of the audience

15 Complaints handling mechanisms and online accountability in Western European PSB

Dolors Palau-Sampio

16 A wheelbarrow full of frogs: how media organisations in the Netherlands are dealing with online public complaints

Yael de Haan

17 The battle over the living room: constructing an accountable popular culture

Efrat Daskal

18 Examining media accountability in online media and the role of active audiences: the case of Spain

Jose A. García-Avilés

19 Media criticism in an African journalistic culture: an inventory of media accountability practices in Kenya

David Cheruiyot