Media accountability in the age of social media: Participatory transparency of the audience in Spain

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Beteiligte: Chaparro-Domínguez, María-Ángeles, Pérez-Pereiro, Marta, Rodríguez-Martínez, Ruth
In: Global Media and Communication, 17, 2021, 3, S. 281-296
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SAGE Publications
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Umfang: 281-296
ISSN: 1742-7673
1742-7665
DOI: 10.1177/1742766521990417
veröffentlicht in: Global Media and Communication
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: SAGE Publications (CrossRef)
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<jats:p>The mass media is increasingly promoting public participation. Taking as a starting point the participatory transparency concept enunciated by Karlsson (2010), our research studies the audience’s active role in holding Spanish media to account through a range of online tools. We study the role of the audience by analyzing the perceptions of two main actors: journalists and citizens. A two-fold methodology was adopted: a questionnaire survey of 228 active journalists in Spain and six focus group panels with media users. The main results show that the journalists are not optimistic about the effectiveness of accountability instruments used by the audience. The users value positively being able to participate in the journalistic process, although they believe that journalists should ultimately perform the role of fact-checkers of user-generated content.</jats:p>