Right-wing alternative media in research

Holt, Kristoffer

doi:10.4324/9780429454691-4

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“…News audiences find themselves exposed to an increasingly abundant spectrum of sources for political information (Van Aelst et al 2017). Most important, in the present case, is the rise of alternative news outlets, which cater to specific ideological segments of the news consuming public (Haller et al 2019; Holt 2020). Here, too, recent developments in the media market have shown right-wing actors using digital platforms to build transnational media companies, such as the attempt to establish the AltRight Corporation as a U.S.–European media enterprise (Feder and Mannheimer 2017).…”

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“…Recent research has shown that RNS have established themselves in several countries and represent a new force in the broader media environment (Haller et al 2019; Holt 2020). Although these sites may differ in some of their characteristics, such as their reach or funding structures, their rise may be considered as a transnational phenomenon because they share ideological foundations and occupy similar information niches across countries (Heft et al 2020).…”

Section: Networking and Integration Among Right-wing Digital News Sitesmentioning

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“…We can expect that the actors traditionally known to attract attention in online networks—legacy media and political elites—play a prominent role here (Heft 2019; Pfetsch et al 2016). While linking out to political elites—and to political allies in particular—would speak for the prevalence of a political logic, linking to legacy media seems paradoxical at first glance, given that RNS more or less explicitly position themselves as a corrective to the so-called media establishment (Figenschou and Ihlebæk 2019; Holt 2020; Sandberg and Ihlebæk 2019). However, such a paradoxical propensity to link out to renowned mass media could be effective for various reasons (see Haller and Holt 2019 regarding political actors), not the least of which are professional journalistic reasons.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Toward a Transnational Information Ecology on the Right? Hyperlink Networking among Right-Wing Digital News Sites in Europe and the United States

Heft

Knüpfer

Reinhardt

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The International Journal of Press/Politics

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The recent rise of a more transnationally networked political right across Europe and the United States has been accompanied by an emerging alternative digital news infrastructure through which information circulates and shared epistemologies are established. This paper examines the extent to which digital news sites on the right are interconnected within and across countries. It further explores which additional sites serve as transnationally shared reference points of such news ecology on a transnational scale. To do so, we investigate hyperlink networks between alternative right-wing online news sites (RNS) in six western democracies (Austria, Germany, United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden). Our analysis draws on hyperlink data harvested from 65 RNS for three months in 2018. The results show that RNS do establish interlinked alternative right-wing news ecologies, as they connect to likeminded RNS within and across borders. Furthermore, we see substantial variation across countries, where RNS from countries with less established alternative right-wing news infrastructure are more likely to link transnationally to RNS. The United States represents an outlier in that it features the largest and domestically most integrated network of RNS, while U.S. sites function as hubs for transnational connections from European RNS. Apart from connections between RNS, we find that legacy news media are crucial transnationally shared reference points. We conclude that rather than presenting an insulated, alternative sphere, the emerging digital news ecology on the right seeks to link up to the broader information environment across borders.

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Toward a Transnational Information Ecology on the Right? Hyperlink Networking among Right-Wing Digital News Sites in Europe and the United States

Heft

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Reinhardt

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The International Journal of Press/Politics

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“…Furthermore, people who express a high level of media distrust tend to use alternative sources more often (Fletcher and Park, 2017; Strömbäck et al, 2020; Tsfati, 2003, 2010). A core issue for right-wing alternative media has been to counter what is perceived as the biased ‘mainstream media’, particularly its coverage of immigration and Islam (Atkinson and Berg, 2012; Figenschou and Ihlebæk, 2018; Heft et al, 2019; Holt, 2020; Ihlebæk and Nygaard, 2021; Nygaard, 2019). Recent research has documented how right-wing sites, even though they may not have high readership, have managed to set a social media agenda through a loyal follower base eager to engage with their content (Benkler et al, 2018; Heft et al, 2019; Sandberg and Ihlebæk, 2019).…”

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Hostile emotions: An exploratory study of far-right online commenters and their emotional connection to traditional and alternative news media

Ihlebæk

Holter

2021

Journalism

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In this article, we explore media use through the perspective of emotions. We specifically focus on a contested group of media users, namely those who engage in uncivil online behaviour and have had one or several comments deleted by moderators due to xenophobic and racist content. Our point of departure is that the informants represent a particularly engaged yet controversial audience. Based on theoretical perspectives on ‘hostile emotions’ like anger and fear and how the news media function as ‘emotional regimes’, we explore how the informants talk about their worldview and how it affects their media choices. We argue that political fear constitutes a powerful part of the informants’ narratives, which again influences their media use. Even though they are highly sceptical and suspicious, the participants in the study seek information from a wide selection of traditional and alternative sources where their worldview is both contested and confirmed. Furthermore, the strong fear expressed by informants constitute an important element of the anger they feel towards the established news media. This particular anger is structured around the notion of objective reporting that they consider highly provocative, both factually and emotionally, as it does not match how they experience the world around them.

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“…Similarly, there are persuasive arguments for a less normative framework that defines both left-wing and right-wing alternative media as ‘self-perceived correctives of “traditional”, “legacy” or “mainstream” news media in a given socio-cultural and historical context’ (Holt et al, 2019: 4). That is, alternative media actors challenge journalistic authority (Figenschou and Ihlebæk, 2018) and publish perspectives that are perceived as being ‘unfairly treated’ in mainstream media (Holt, 2019: 14).…”

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Hyperpartisan news: Rethinking the media for populist politics

Rae

2020

New Media & Society

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Online media sites such as Breitbart News in the United States and The Canary in the United Kingdom have come to prominence as powerful new agents. Their reach and influence in the contemporary digital media ecology have been widely highlighted, yet there has been little scholarship to situate these important new players in the field of political communication. This article argues that, first, these ‘interlopers’ known as the ‘alt-right’ and ‘alt-left’ need to be understood as embedded in the context of populist politics. Second, ‘hyperpartisan’ describes these sites better than the framework of alternative media as it mirrors populism’s ideological pillar of ‘us’ versus ‘them’. Finally, a deliberate provocation is argued to name these digital start-ups as news to create a starting point for conceptualising these disruptive new media forces.

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Right-wing alternative media in research

Cited by 12 publications

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Toward a Transnational Information Ecology on the Right? Hyperlink Networking among Right-Wing Digital News Sites in Europe and the United States

Toward a Transnational Information Ecology on the Right? Hyperlink Networking among Right-Wing Digital News Sites in Europe and the United States

Hostile emotions: An exploratory study of far-right online commenters and their emotional connection to traditional and alternative news media

Hyperpartisan news: Rethinking the media for populist politics

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