Abstract

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 established journalistic ways of ensuring facticity and context, and a movement logic, in which references are used to obtain political, movement-oriented goals of dismissing opponents, supporting your allies, multiplying forces and building a community. Based on a manual quantitative content analysis of more than 4,500 references extracted from 1,000 randomly selected articles by 20 right-wing alternative news media from six countries (US, UK, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Denmark), the article shows that alternative news media predominantly follow a journalistic logic in their referencing practices, though at the expense of a limited originality of sources. Despite their anti-mainstream ambition, alternative news media frequently refer to mainstream media, but only rarely dismiss or re-frame content published by these media. The article discusses these practices as an expression of the hybrid nature of alternative news media situated at the boundary between journalism and political activism. Moreover, it addresses broader implications for the relationship between alternative and mainstream journalistic practice in the digital realm.

摘要

文章分析了右翼另类网络新闻媒体的文内引用实践。它区分了一种新闻逻辑，其中引用实践遵循既定的新闻方式以确保真实性和背景，以及运动逻辑，其中引用用于获得政治、运动导向的目标，即解雇对手、支持你的盟友、增加力量和建立一个社区。基于对来自六个国家（美国、英国、德国、奥地利、瑞典、丹麦）的 20 家右翼另类新闻媒体从 1,000 篇随机选择的文章中提取的 4,500 多篇参考文献进行手动定量内容分析，文章显示，另类新闻媒体在他们的参考实践中主要遵循新闻逻辑，尽管以牺牲来源的有限原创性为代价。尽管有反主流的野心，另类新闻媒体经常提到主流媒体，但很少忽略或重新构建这些媒体发布的内容。这篇文章讨论了这些做法，作为位于新闻和政治活动之间边界的另类新闻媒体的混合性质的表达。此外，它还解决了数字领域中替代新闻实践与主流新闻实践之间关系的更广泛影响。