Toward a Transnational Information Ecology on the Right? Hyperlink Networking among Right-Wing Digital News Sites in Europe and the United States

dc.contributor.authorHeft, Annett
dc.contributor.authorKnüpfer, Curd
dc.contributor.authorReinhardt, Susanne
dc.contributor.authorMayerhöffer, Eva
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-30T14:24:39Z
dc.date.available2023-08-30T14:24:39Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe recent rise of a more transnationally networked political right across Europe and the United States has been accompanied by an emerging alternative digital news infrastructure through which information circulates and shared epistemologies are established. This paper examines the extent to which digital news sites on the right are interconnected within and across countries. It further explores which additional sites serve as transnationally shared reference points of such news ecology on a transnational scale. To do so, we investigate hyperlink networks between alternative right-wing online news sites (RNS) in six western democracies (Austria, Germany, United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden). Our analysis draws on hyperlink data harvested from 65 RNS for three months in 2018. The results show that RNS do establish interlinked alternative right-wing news ecologies, as they connect to likeminded RNS within and across borders. Furthermore, we see substantial variation across countries, where RNS from countries with less established alternative right-wing news infrastructure are more likely to link transnationally to RNS. The United States represents an outlier in that it features the largest and domestically most integrated network of RNS, while U.S. sites function as hubs for transnational connections from European RNS. Apart from connections between RNS, we find that legacy news media are crucial transnationally shared reference points. We conclude that rather than presenting an insulated, alternative sphere, the emerging digital news ecology on the right seeks to link up to the broader information environment across borders.
dc.identifier.citationHeft, A., Knüpfer, C., Reinhardt, S., & Mayerhöffer, E. (2021). Toward a Transnational Information Ecology on the Right? Hyperlink Networking among Right-Wing Digital News Sites in Europe and the United States. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 26(2), 484–504. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940161220963670
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/1940161220963670
dc.identifier.eissn1940-1620
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/284
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectright-wing digital news sites
dc.subjecttransnational news ecologies
dc.subjectdigital media
dc.subjectalternative media
dc.subjecthyperlink networks
dc.subjecttransnationalization
dc.titleToward a Transnational Information Ecology on the Right? Hyperlink Networking among Right-Wing Digital News Sites in Europe and the United States
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleThe International Journal of Press/Politics
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend504
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart484
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume26
local.researchgroupDigitalisierung und transnationale Öffentlichkeit
local.researchtopicDemokratie – Partizipation – Öffentlichkeit
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