The Contexts and Consequences of Hybridity for Alternative News Audiences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22010680 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Rauch (0000-0002-8120-9783, Linfield College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 872-879 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Digital Journalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2167-0811 • E-ISSN: 2167-082X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21670811.2023.2180407 |
| OpenAlex | W4323031171 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 14 |
This commentary surveys and analyzes the flourishing field of alternative news audiences, whose values, attitudes and practices were previously underexamined by scholarship. Rauch discusses this new research as a response to significant recent shifts in the conceptualization of both audiences and alternative news, including recognition of their hybridity as well as their negative influences on democratic discourse. She interprets these trends in light of John D.H. Downing’s prescient warnings of two decades ago regarding a slippage toward binarism, a neglect of far-right or repressive media, and a conflation of technologies, genres and formats in media user research. This article synthesizes and extends findings about the contexts and consequences of hybrid news consumption, including those related to mutually reinforcing relationships between alternative and mainstream media and those addressing their potential to provoke intrapersonal and interpersonal conflict. Rauch proposes several new directions for future research on alternative news reception, including extended comparison of national contexts and attention to audience attitudes regarding journalism reform
Conceptualization · Conflation · Epistemology · Flourishing · Hybridity · Journalism · Mainstream · Media studies · News media · Political science · Public relations · Scholarship · Sociology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
The Hybrid Media System
Red Media, Blue Media, and Purple Media
Radical Media
Network Propaganda
Asking the Readers
Seeking Transnational, Digital-native News From Latin America
Fake News as Discursive Integration
Audiences and Readers of Alternative Media
I'm Doing this to Change the World
Quality, Innovation, and Financial Sustainability
Alternative Journalism
Alternative and Mainstream Media
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |