Pandemic populism: Facebook pages of alternative news media and the corona crisis--A computational content analysis

S Boberg, T Quandt, T Schatto-Eckrodt… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has not only had severe political, economic, and societal effects, it
has also affected media and communication systems in unprecedented ways. While …

Who uses right-wing alternative online media? An exploration of audience characteristics

H Schulze - Politics and Governance, 2020 - ssoar.info
Accompanying the success of the radical right and right-wing populist movements, right-
wing alternative online media have recently gained prominence and, to some extent …

The sharing of disinformation in cross-national comparison: analyzing patterns of resilience

E Humprecht, F Esser, PV Aelst… - Information …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Although the problem of disinformation is on the rise across the globe, previous research
has found that countries differ in the extent of widespread disinformation. In this study, we …

Understanding alternative news media and its contribution to diversity

KA Ihlebæk, TU Figenschou, SA Eldridge… - Digital …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In this introduction to the special issue Contesting the Mainstream: Understanding
Alternative News Media, we discuss how and to what extent alternative news media …

Alternative media, alternative voices? A quantitative analysis of actor diversity in alternative and mainstream news outlets

W Buyens, P Van Aelst - Digital Journalism, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
abstract Alternative news media are largely independent players in the news environment,
which allows them to publish more alternative, and possibly more radical, news content. Do …

Trust, democratic resilience, and the infodemic

L Frischlich, E Humprecht - 2021 - zora.uzh.ch
This policy paper focuses on the nexus between trust and mis-and disinformation in the
context of the COVID-19 pandemic. First, we use the image of a spiral to illustrate selected …

Between journalistic and movement logic: Disentangling referencing practices of right-wing alternative online news media

E Mayerhöffer, A Heft - Digital Journalism, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The article analyzes the in-article referencing practices of right-wing alternative online news
media. It distinguishes between a journalistic logic, in which referencing practices follow …

Alternative counter-news use and fake news recall during the COVID-19 crisis

L Frischlich, L Kuhfeldt, T Schatto-Eckrodt… - Digital …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by a massive flood of “fake
news”, conspiracy theories, and distorted information more generally. Alternative news …

Comparing frame repertoires of mainstream and right-wing alternative media

T Klawier, F Prochazka, W Schweiger - Digital Journalism, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Under the premise that the use of alternative news frames is a key characteristic of
alternative media, this study examines frame repertoires of alleged mainstream media and …

What news users perceive as 'alternative media'varies between countries: How media fragmentation and polarization matter

D Steppat, L Castro, F Esser - Digital Journalism, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Studies have extensively discussed what characterizes news media sources as alternative.
However, this study focuses on users and the range of news sources they perceive as …