[ecrea] New book: Mapping Media Accountability -- in Europe and Beyond

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Tobias Eberwein / Susanne Fengler / Epp Lauk / Tanja Leppik-Bork (eds.) 
(2011): Mapping Media Accountability - in Europe and Beyond. Cologne: 
Herbert von Halem Verlag, 267 pages.

Summary:

While press councils face tough challenges across Europe, and media 
reporting has almost vanished from the mass media in many countries in a 
time of media crisis, new forms of media accountability have emerged in 
the Internet: readers and viewers twitter about the media’s mistakes, 
online ombudsmen follow up on e-mail complaints, and journalists blog 
about their profession. Can such innovative instruments of media 
criticism effectively supplement conventional institutions of media 
self-regulation like press councils and media journalism?

The book "Mapping Media Accountability - in Europe and Beyond" provides 
pioneer work in analyzing the development of established and emerging 
media accountability instruments in 14 countries in Eastern and Western 
Europe as well as the Arab world. Media scholars and students, 
professionals and policy-makers alike will be introduced to the specific 
problems and perspectives of media accountability in different media 
systems and journalistic cultures. Looked at from a comparative point of 
view, the reports hint at the formation of different cultures of media 
accountability within Europe and its adjacent countries. These cultures 
partly overlap with the journalism cultures identified in the well-known 
model by Hallin & Mancini. At the same time, the development of media 
accountability and transparency shows distinctive features incongruent 
with established models of journalism cultures. Consequently, the book 
also offers new stimuli for innovations in journalism theory.

A collection of abstracts from the book is now available on the website 
of the international research project "Media Accountability and 
Transparency in Europe <http://www.mediaact.eu/81.html>" (MediaAcT). 
More materials can be found on the homepage of the Cologne-based 
publisher Herbert von Halem 
<http://halemverlag.lookingintomedia.com/shop/product_info.php/products_id/229/XTCsid/99c01e5e6053eb1ccf80edc76499f8bf>.


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Dipl.-Journ. Tobias Eberwein
Institut für Journalistik
Technische Universität Dortmund
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