Media and Accountability in Latin America Framework - Conditions - Instruments /

• Main Author: Bastian, Mariella (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Studies in International, Transnational and Global Communications,
• Subjects: Journalism.; Communication.; Sociology.; Cultural studies.; Media Research.; Cultural Studies.

This study approaches a pressing question for the public, the media, and in academia: how can the media be held accountable? By focusing on the relationship between media and accountability in the understudied region of Latin America, Mariella Bastian provides a theoretical framework for the analysi...

Table of Contents:

• Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay: Background and media landscapes
• De-westernizing the media accountability approach: Towards a Latin American design of accountability frames
• Conditions for media accountability in Latin America
• The status quo of online media accountability in Latin America
• Media accountability instruments in Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay
• Special cases and typology of media accountability instruments in Latin America.