Media Visibility and the Scope of Accountability

Maia, Rousiley C. M.

doi:10.1080/15295030903176666

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“…Yet the various roles the media play in accountability processes have only recently become the subject of a growing amount of studies (e.g. Bonner, 2009; Djerf-Pierre et al, 2013, 2014; Jacobs and Schillemans, 2016; Maia, 2009). According to these studies, the news media may engender accountability simply by creating visibility – thereby enabling citizens to evaluate their leaders’ conduct – or by exposing potential abuses of power that trigger formal accountability processes (Jacobs and Schillemans, 2016; Jantz and Neby, 2013).…”

Section: Social Accountability In the Hybrid Media Eramentioning

confidence: 99%

Networked publics as agents of accountability: Online interactions between citizens, the media and immigration officials during the European refugee crisis

Ojala

Pantti

Laaksonen

2018

New Media & Society

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This study examines how citizens made use of online platforms to direct diverging critiques and demands at the Finnish Immigration Service during what has come to be known as the refugee crisis in Europe. Focusing on peak periods of debate, identified using big data, we closely observe how public scrutiny of the immigration service occurred in the interactions between online users, the news media and the agency itself. Our analysis indicates that networked publics can be regarded as influential drivers of accountability for government agencies, which often feel obligated to justify their actions to these publics. However, the operation of networked publics as accountability agents remains heavily dependent on the broader public debate, which is still largely shaped by news media organisations, political elites and the officials themselves.

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Section: Social Accountability In the Hybrid Media Eramentioning

confidence: 99%

Networked publics as agents of accountability: Online interactions between citizens, the media and immigration officials during the European refugee crisis

Ojala

Pantti

Laaksonen

2018

New Media & Society

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“…Maia (2009) and Bonner (2009) both investigated the role of the news media in accountability processes in political crises in South America. Other scholars have THE MEDIATIZATION OF POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY 323 explored accountability interviews as a particular journalistic practice (e.g.…”

Section: Political Accountability and Journalism: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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The Mediatization of Political Accountability

Djerf-Pierre¹,

Ekström²,

Håkansson³

et al. 2014

Journalism Studies

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This study investigates how political accountability, as a key democratic principle, is performed in the media and how the practices and representations of accountability are transformed over time by the influences of mediatization. The implications of mediatization are analyzed with a focus on how aspects of media dramaturgy and independent journalism influence news reporting of political responsibility and how politicians are held to account in the media. The effects of mediatization are understood as conditioned by other structural changes in political life, in particular depoliticization. The empirical study is designed as a comparison of news reports on two national industrial crises in 1980-1982 and 2008-2011, and is based on content analyses of daily morning newspapers, evening tabloids, and regional and local newspapers. The study provides evidence for a non-linear understanding of mediatization. Significant aspects of media dramaturgy are shown to be rather stable between the two time periods whilst the journalistic independence and interpretations increase as expected. The hypothesis of depoliticization receives some support although the results are not unambiguous.

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“…From the moment that the media pay attention to governmental failures or political abuses and promotes social debate about them, the press is perceived as a way to strengthen accountability (see, for example, Ettema, 2007;Chavez, 2006). The news media provide a way for citizens to see how public officials respond to their problems (Maia, 2009). This, in turn, raises two questions: what happens when the media do not report deeper public affairs and simply reproduce official messages?…”

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Dilution of Accountability and Transparency in the Flint Water Crisis: A Case of Institutional Implosion

Chávez¹,

Gabaldón²,

Tunney³

et al. 2017

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This article examines two major institutions widely touted in the United States as servants to communities and the general public: the government and the news media. The Flint water crisis is a textbook case in which these two institutions failed to live up to their responsibilities of accountability and transparency. The authors examine the major events during the water crisis, looking at it through the lens of government actions and how the press covered them, conducting qualitative context analysis during the first five months of the crisis. The analysis includes the actions of federal, state, and local agencies and the reporting of national, state, and local newspapers. Their findings show that the institutions completely imploded, with an impact on thousands of residents, many of whom happened to be minorities. resumen Este trabajo analiza la labor de dos grandes instituciones que prestan servicio a las comunidades y a la sociedad en general en Estados Unidos: el gobierno y los medios de comunicación. La crisis del agua Flint es un caso de libro de texto que muestra cómo estas dos instituciones incumplieron sus responsabilidades de transparencia y rendición de cuentas. Los autores examinan los principales sucesos ocurridos durante la crisis del agua, observándolos a través de la lente de las acciones gubernamentales y la cobertura que les dio la prensa, realizando un análisis cualitativo de contexto de los primeros cinco meses de la crisis. Tal estudio incluye las acciones de las agencias federales, estatales y locales, y cómo fue tratado en la prensa a nivel nacional, estatal y local. Los hallazgos muestran que hubo una absoluta implosión institucional que impactó a miles de residentes -muchos de los cuales resultaron pertenecer a minorías-.Palabras clave: rendición de cuentas, transparencia, gobierno prensa, crisis agua.

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Media Visibility and the Scope of Accountability

Cited by 11 publications

References 26 publications

Networked publics as agents of accountability: Online interactions between citizens, the media and immigration officials during the European refugee crisis

Networked publics as agents of accountability: Online interactions between citizens, the media and immigration officials during the European refugee crisis

The Mediatization of Political Accountability

Dilution of Accountability and Transparency in the Flint Water Crisis: A Case of Institutional Implosion

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