Correctives of the Mainstream Media? A Panel Study on Mainstream Media Use, Alternative Digital Media Use, and the Erosion of Political Interest as Well as Political Knowledge

Reiter, Franz; Matthes, Jörg

doi:10.1080/21670811.2021.1974916

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“…Future research could here analyze exactly which alternative and traditional media content is allowed by mobilizers in their channels or why the mobilizers seem to try to seal off their channel subscribers from traditional media. Possible implications of the absence of traditional media and the dominance of far-right alternative media are consequently the erosion of traditional media's democratic function (Reiter & Matthes, 2021) and a further increase of distrust and polarization (Figenschou & Ihlebaek, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

German Corona Protest Mobilizers on Telegram and Their Relations to the Far Right: A Network and Topic Analysis

Zehring

Domahidi

2023

Social Media + Society

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The Querdenken movement, the leading force behind German corona protests, is suspected of being a gateway to far-right attitudes due to radicalizing inward-oriented communication on Telegram. To investigate potential connections of this movement to the far right and alternative media—and to explore key topics of the Querdenken network over time—we analyzed 6,294,955 messages from 578 public Telegram channels via network analysis and structural topic modeling. This analysis revealed that Querdenken’s subcommunities preferably forward content from far-right and QAnon communities, while far-right and conspiracy theorist alternative media channels act as content distributors for the movement. Four main topics appeared in the Querdenken network with varying prevalence over time and across different communities: promotion, QAnon, right-wing populism, and COVID-19 conspiracy theories. Our results highlight potential directions for future research and practical implications, for example, that political decision makers should account for the increasing influence of the QAnon movement on Querdenken mobilizers’ Telegram activity.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

German Corona Protest Mobilizers on Telegram and Their Relations to the Far Right: A Network and Topic Analysis

Zehring

Domahidi

2023

Social Media + Society

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“…Across the wider sample, the theme of generational conflict is communicated through the positioning of youth as the saviours of the climate emergency -#savetheday #savetheearth #genz -alongside dismissive or hostile captioning and disruptive editing of 'boomers' speaking, including politicians and wellknown climate sceptics. This small-scale analysis also suggested that these ideas and themes may be connected with questions of distrust in mainstream media and public institutions more widely, something which may not be surprising as research has shown that consumers of alternative digital media often turn to them as correctives of what they see in the former (Reiter and Matthes, 2023;Happer, 2024).…”

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Stranger Things on TikTok: Young People, Climate Change and Upside Down Political Communication

Happer,

Åberg

2024

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“…Mainstream print media has been described as legacy news media that operate with "often hierarchical, organizational structures and traditional publishing routines" (Reiter & Matthes, 2021).…”

Section: Literature Review the Canadian Mediascapementioning

confidence: 99%

On Reckoning and Renewal: A Discourse Analysis of Migrant Farm Worker Coverage in Alternative News Media

Robinson

2024

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This Major Research Paper seeks to assess alternative media coverage of migrant farm workers in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. Extending upon what Callison and Young (2020) call a “digital reckoning” taking place in Canadian journalism, I employ the theoretical framework of political economy of communication (PEC) to interpret the organizational practices and funding models of the shifting mediascape. Following in the tradition of PEC, I ask how alternative media in Canada are covering migrant farm workers and worker programs during a pandemic, and to what extent these publications are addressing larger systemic issues in their coverage. A critical discourse analysis of two print magazines and four digital media outlets finds common themes surrounding precarious work, exploitation and the need for migrant workers to access a pathway to citizenship, but relatively less context into systemic issues. A broader assessment of the journalism industry encourages future scholarship of alternative media in Canada.

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Correctives of the Mainstream Media? A Panel Study on Mainstream Media Use, Alternative Digital Media Use, and the Erosion of Political Interest as Well as Political Knowledge

Cited by 11 publications

References 52 publications

German Corona Protest Mobilizers on Telegram and Their Relations to the Far Right: A Network and Topic Analysis

German Corona Protest Mobilizers on Telegram and Their Relations to the Far Right: A Network and Topic Analysis

Stranger Things on TikTok: Young People, Climate Change and Upside Down Political Communication

On Reckoning and Renewal: A Discourse Analysis of Migrant Farm Worker Coverage in Alternative News Media

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