For studying populism in a hybrid and high-choice media environment, the comparison of
various media channels is especially instructive. We argue that populism-related …

Since the advent of the Internet, right-wing extremists and those who subscribe to extreme
right views have exploited online platforms to build a collective identity among the like …

Until 2017, Germany was an exception to the success of radical right parties in postwar
Europe. We provide new evidence for the transformation of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) …

The present paper contributes to the research on the activities of far-right actors on social
media by examining the interconnections between far-right actors and groups on Telegram …

Topic modeling has become an effective tool for communication scholars to explore large
amounts of texts. However, empirical studies applying topic modeling often face the critical …

With large social media platforms coming under increasing pressure to deplatform far-right
users, the Alternative Technology movement (Alt-Tech) emerged as a new digital support …

In Europe, as in the rest of the Western world, scholarly interest in social movements
developed with the wave of protest that, in the late sixties, shook confidence in the 'end of …

The Querdenken movement, the leading force behind German corona protests, is suspected
of being a gateway to far-right attitudes due to radicalizing inward-oriented communication …

In reaction to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has restricted the access to its
Application Programming Interface (API). This new policy has damaged the possibility for …

How populists engage with media of various types, and are treated by those media, are
questions of international interest. In the United States, Donald Trump stands out for both his …