News media in The Netherlands show great variety in the extent and ways, in which they realize media accountability online in terms of actor transparency, product transparency and feedback opportunities online. It is suggested that even those news rooms that seem to adhere to transparency and public accountability still need to explore the functionality and application of media accountability instruments (MAI). Both in terms of potentials and pitfalls, news rooms need to consider about what they want to be transparent and in what ways. To the extent that online innovations are visible, traditional news media seem to experiment, as is the case with newsroom blogs or the project of hyper local journalism Dichtbij.nl, part of the Telegraaf Company. Various news media have on-going projects on audience participation, online applications and distribution models. However, since many projects merely aim at finding new applications, processes, platforms and business models, it remains to be seen assess whether projects are indeed reasonably innovative and feasible at the same time. The development of an online and therefore immediate, archived, personalized and interactive context, offers practical and ethical challenges to Dutch journalism. These challenges bring shifts in its role and responsibility to society. It means that changes occur in what journalists are accountable for, as well as ways in how they are accountable. The Dutch media landscape lodges various professional accountability instruments like the press council and both profession-wide and news media specific codes of ethics, but some of these instruments receive only moderate support. Proactive openness is more an exception than the rule and may well be a distinctive indicator for quality journalism. Although news media often acknowledge the importance of media accountability offline and online, they often lack the resources or courage to use them or have different priorities. This ambiguous position may indicate that in relation to media accountability online, Dutch news media are between hope and fear: that it will either improve their relationship with the public and fuel professional quality, or ask too much of resources with too little benefit.
The challenge: to construct an Enterprise Architecture course with a size of 15 European Credit points (approx. 400 hours of study) for an audience of Bachelor students in IT. The students have an IT-related job and follow this course part-time. Consequently, contact time is restricted to one evening per week.
De afgelopen jaren heeft betaald deeltijdwerk in de bijstand onder beleidsmakers meer aandacht gekregen, mede door de beperkte mogelijkheden voor veel bijstandsgerechtigden om volledig uit te stromen. Maar er is weinig onderzoek gedaan naar de beweegredenen van bijstandsgerechtigden om in deeltijd betaald werk te verrichten en de waarden die zij daarbij afwegen. In dit artikel geven we meer inzicht in de waarden die bijstandsgerechtigden afwegen om wel of niet in deeltijd betaald werk te verrichten in de bijstand. Dat doen we op basis van 31 kwalitatieve semigestructureerde interviews met bijstandsgerechtigden. De resultaten laten zien dat bijstandsgerechtigden verschillende intrinsieke en extrinsieke waarden tegen elkaar afwegen en dat het spanningsveld tussen die waarden de stap naar deeltijdwerk of uitstroom kan bemoeilijken. Deeltijdwerk in de bijstand heeft de potentie om een waardevol alternatief te vormen voor volledige uitstroom en bijstandsgerechtigden te helpen op weg naar uitstroom. Maar die potentie wordt nu niet volledig benut door de beperkte aandacht voor inkomenszekerheid en zinvolle werkinhoud in het beleidsdebat.
