As Mainstream and Alternative Media Converge?: Critical Perspectives from Asia on Online Media Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Shangyuan Wu
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Media ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Media Development ◽  
Critical Perspectives

scholarly journals (Alternative) Media Sources in AfD-centered Facebook Discussions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Bachl
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Media ◽  
The Self ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
Facebook Pages ◽  
Different Sources

In this research report, I investigated which (media) sources were shared on 122 AfD-related Facebook pages during the year 2016. Results show that mainstream media outlets were not absent from these discussions. The established media sources Welt and Focus were by far the most frequently shared sources, and all major media outlets were represented. However, many of the outlets, which were often mentioned in the debates on an alternative-right (online) media universe, were also highly visible. They were supplemented by a variety of less well-known websites and YouTube channels, many of which are explicitly positioned against the (self-perceived) political and media mainstream. The comparison of party and user messages indicated that the AfD and its supporters preferred somewhat different sources. The party communicators were more likely to refer to more intellectual, conservative-right outlets; the users were more likely to share more controversial and less well-known alternative sources.

Mindless Thugs Running Riot? Mainstream, Alternative and Online Media Representations of Football Crowd Violence

2011 ◽  
Vol 140 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramón Spaaij
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Analytic Framework

This article examines the nature of media coverage of football (soccer) crowd violence in three European countries (England, The Netherlands and Spain). It presents an analytic framework that draws on etic (outsider) and emic (insider) perspectives, and illustrates how each perspective is (re)presented in different forms of media. Whereas the mainstream media's reporting of football crowd violence generally is consistent with the notions of etic representation and moral panic, alternative media tend to construct emic perspectives and use dramatised personal experience in reporting. The framework presented provides a foundation for further analysis and empirical investigation of media depictions of football crowd violence.

Alternative Media and the Securitization of Climate Change in Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Defne Günay ◽  
Emre İşeri ◽  
Metin Ersoy
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Main Research ◽  
National Media ◽  
Media Outlet ◽  
Global Agenda ◽  
Media Data

Studies on securitization dynamics in a growing number of sectors have been conducted, including securitization of climate change. However, a relatively understudied agent of securitization is media. In the proposed analysis, we study Turkey’s media framing of climate change and whether and how it relates to the framings of security in general to acquire in-depth understanding of the role national media plays in securitization of climate change. Along with alternative online media outlet Bianet, mainstream outlets ( Sabah, Sözcü, Hürriyet, Milliyet) are analyzed. This article addresses the following main research question: How do the mainstream and alternative media frame climate change in the Turkish context? In order to answer this question, it adopts content analysis to analyze selected frames on climate change–related news utilized in Turkish media. Data have been collected and coded for three periods: first, the period of September–December 2007, when climate change was high on the global agenda. Second, January 1 to March 25, 2015, which was the period before the Pew survey began. Third, we have collected data for October 1 to November 4, 2015, which is the period just before the United Nations Paris Agreement on Climate Change was signed. We find alternative media’s potential to serve as “alternative public sphere” by voicing the unspoken in public debate on climate change.

scholarly journals Who Uses Right-Wing Alternative Online Media? An Exploration of Audience Characteristics

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Schulze
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Media Use ◽  
National Level ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
National Analysis ◽  
Cross National

Accompanying the success of the radical right and right-wing populist movements, right-wing alternative online media have recently gained prominence and, to some extent, influence on public discourse and elections. The existing scholarship so far focuses primarily on the role of content and social media distribution and pays little attention to the audiences of right-wing alternative media, especially at a cross-national level and in the European context. The present paper addresses this gap by exploring the characteristics of the audiences of right-wing alternative online media. Based on a secondary data analysis of the 2019 Reuters Digital News Survey, this article presents a cross-national analysis of right-wing alternative media use in Northern and Central Europe. The results indicate a comparatively high prevalence of right-wing alternative online media in Sweden, whereas in Germany, Austria, and Finland, these news websites seem to be far less popular. With regard to audience characteristics, the strongest predictors of right-wing alternative online media use are political interest and a critical stance towards immigration, accompanied by a skeptical assessment of news quality, in general, and distrust, especially in public service broadcasting media. Additionally, the use of social media as a primary news source increases the likelihood of right-wing alternative news consumption. This corroborates the high relevance of social media platforms as distributors and multipliers of right-wing alternative news content. The findings suggest that right-wing alternative online media should not be underestimated as a peripheral phenomenon, but rather have to be considered influential factors for center-right to radical right-leaning politics and audiences in public discourse, with a high mobilizing and polarizing potential.

scholarly journals Online media development of natural family planning

2019 ◽  
Vol 1317 ◽  
pp. 012197
Author(s):  
Andi Asmawati Azis ◽  
Andi Faridah Arsal ◽  
Andi Bida Purnamasari
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Natural Family Planning ◽  
Media Development ◽  
Natural Family
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