One of today's most controversial and consequential issues is whether the global uptake of
digital media is causally related to a decline in democracy. We conducted a systematic …

Over the past decade, extremists have increasingly aimed to integrate their ideologies into
the center of society by changing the presentation of their narratives to appeal to a larger …

Does activity on hard-right social media lead to hard-right civil unrest? If so, why? We
created a spatial panel dataset comprising hard-right social media use and incidents of …

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 …

Alternative digital media typically provide a counter-public sphere by opposing the contents
generated by the mainstream media as well as political elites. While previous research has …

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 …

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 …

The competition to set the public agenda has become increasingly tough. In this chapter, we
explore the role of right-wing alternative media. This kind of news provider constitutes a …

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 study explores shifts in political trust during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in
Switzerland, examining the role that media consumption and threat perceptions played in …