RT Journal Article
T1 Media accountability in the age of social media: participatory transparency of the audience in Spain
A1 Chaparro Domínguez, María De Los Ángeles
A1 Pérez-Pereiro, Marta
A1 Rodríguez-Martínez, Ruth
AB 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.
PB Sage
SN 1742-7665
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/91371
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/91371
LA eng
NO Chaparro-Domínguez, M.-Á., Pérez-Pereiro, M., & Rodríguez-Martínez, R. (2021). Media accountability in the age of social media: Participatory transparency of the audience in Spain. Global Media and Communication, 17(3), 281-296. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742766521990417
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Economía y Competitividad (España)
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 5 abr 2025