This article proposes a definition of alternative news media and suggests routes for further
research. It complements and extends previous conceptualizations in research on …

In this introduction to the special issue Contesting the Mainstream: Understanding
Alternative News Media, we discuss how and to what extent alternative news media …

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 …

Media scholars and non‐scholars alike have long sought to discern and describe the
differences between alternative media and mainstream media—a task that became harder …

The recent flurry of research into alternative media (most significant being the book-length
studies by Atton, 2002, Downing, 2001, Rodriguez, 2001, and Part 3 of Couldry, 2000) has …

The global rise of hyper-partisan media, especially on the political right, has been receiving
increasing scholarly attention in the past years. In contrast to discarding these media as …

In this chapter I argue that the academic study of alternative media is dominated by an
approach that focuses on their political value and, in particular, on the capacity of alternative …

There is a long and continuing tradition of alternative media being produced to challenge
the discourse (s) of mainstream media. This article explores the ways in which the …

Alternative media are more recently discussed as anti-democratic threats rather than hopeful
alternatives to established mainstream positions. Despite the growing attention to anti …

This article addresses the role of digital technologies in redefining journalism. The research
finds that the new media appear in the traditional news media mainly as a source of …