Digital media are critical for contemporary activism—even low-effort “clicktivism” is politically
consequential and contributes to offline participation. We argue that in the United States and …

This literature review examines cross-disciplinary work on radicalization to situate,
historicize, frame, and better understand the present concerns around online radicalization …

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

Everyday public denial of anthropogenically caused climate change (ACC) has complex
antecedents and exists on both individual and institutional levels. Earlier research has …

This study investigates the overall topic compositions and traces of right-wing populist
partisanship in the content structures of German-language digital alternative news outlets …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The instant messaging platform Telegram has become popular among the far-right
movements in the US and UK in recent years. These groups use public Telegram channels …

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 …