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According to many programs and initiatives launched by supranational institutions like UNECSO and the European Commission in recent years, the definition of "quality indicators for journalism is a way to strengthen the democratic functions of the media" (as it is stated in a 2010 UNESCO report on Brazilian media). Nevertheless, opinion is divided on whether there is a fixed set of principles across democracies that would allow measuring and evaluating the quality of democracy and media performance in an etic way, or whether the extraordinary diversity of democratic configurations throughout the world as well as the diversity of media types call for a more culture- and media-specific, emic approach. Connected to this, scholars working on media performance are particularly concerned with the main question of the 2017 ICA Annual Conference of how research could (or should) contribute to the "good life" and how scholars could (or should) make "communication interventions" in public.
After the great success of last year's ICA preconference on "Media Performance and Democracy", the 2017 preconference aims at intensifying the discussion by focusing on the two aforementioned challenging dimensions:
(1) Do different concepts and practices of democracy in various parts of the world or different perceptions of democracy within a society call for different conceptualizations of the role of journalism, and thus for different principles of media quality, or do we need an internationally valid framework to assess media performance in a comparative way?
(2) Do different types of media fulfill different functions within a democratic society, thus facing different quality demands, or are there normative claims to be made about the democratic quality of public communication across all media types?
The preconference therefore places special emphasis on
- contributions from countries around the world, particularly from countries or areas that have been insufficiently represented in international literature until now,
- studies dealing not only with mainstream "legacy" media, but also with all kinds of social and "alternative" media and their role in the overall media environment,
- concepts that focus on the relationships between the various levels quality should be measured (policy and regulatory frameworks, media system structures, newsroom investment, organizational standards, journalists' role perceptions, content characteristics, and user preferences), and
- reflections and practical examples of why scholars should seek, or not seek, to "intervene" in public debate with their research findings in order to support good practice in journalism.
Media Regimes and Democratic Trajectories – How Hallin and Mancini Complement Lijphart’s Approach to Democratic Politics - Rodney Evan Tiffen, U of Sydney
Democratic Drivers of “Free Flow” and “Fair Flow” News: The NWICO Debates Re-Examined in the Global Era - Mark Princi Hannah, New York University IPK
Synergies Between Democracy and Journalism - Sergio Ricardo Quiroga, Centre for Social Studies - ICAES
Evaluating Media Performance in the Light of Fragmented Audiences - Raphael Koesters, Heinrich Heine U Duesseldorf; Olaf Jandura, Ludwig Maximilians U - Munich
Media Performance, Stratification, and Segmentation – Main Findings From the “Yearbook Quality of the Media” in Switzerland - Linards Udris, U of Zurich; Mario Schranz, U of Zurich; Mark Eisenegger; Jörg Schneider, U of Zurich; Lucie Hauser, U of Zurich
Journalistic Quality and Ethnic Media: Which Quality for Which Media? - Petra Herczeg, U of Vienna, Department of Communication
Youth in Revolt: The Democratic Potential of Campus Newspaper Protest Coverage - Marina A Hendricks, South Dakota State U; Joy Michelle Jenkins, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Different Audience – Different Journalistic Style? Tabloid Journalism as Alternative Public Sphere - Ursula Alexandra Ohliger
How Political Atmosphere Affects Media Performance and Democracy in Turkey: Twitter Users’ Reaction - Enes Abanoz, Ondokuz Mayis University
Diversity as a Quality Standard of Search Engines. A Comparative Content Analysis of Algorithm-Based Search Results - Miriam Steiner; Melanie Magin, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Birgit Stark, Department of Communication, U of Mainz
Journalistic Role Perceptions as an Expression of Democratic Potentials? Comparative Evidence for the Democratic Orientation of European Journalists - Andreas Riedl, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Corinna Laurerer, U of Munich
Vietnam Journalism Ethics: Somewhere In-Between - Nhung Nguyen, RED-Center for Research on Communication Development; Stephen Ward, U of Wisconsin-Madison; Huyen Trinh, RED-Center for Research on Communication Development
Quality Research and Media at Crossroads: Constructive Debating Citizen Communities – An Overdue Ethical Commitment and Quality Feature? - Marlis Prinzing, Macromedia U of Applied Studies
Putting the DEMOS Back in Democracy: Theoretical Considerations on the Role of the Media in a Democratic Society - Josef Seethaler, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Maren Beaufort, Austrian Academy of Sciences - Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies
Media and Democratization in Cuba: From “Poetic Sorcery” to “Structural Witchcraft” - Sara Garcia Garcia Santamaria, Universidad de La Habana
Media Logic and Democracy - David L. Altheide, Arizona State U