In this introduction to the special issue Contesting the Mainstream: Understanding
Alternative News Media, we discuss how and to what extent alternative news media …

With increasing digitization and commercialization, a plethora of new formats has entered
the journalistic field, challenging its norms, routines, and practices. Research on these so …

This article examines the historical roots of the role of successive Turkish governments' fear
of media and Turkish media's fear of government authority with respect to the development …

In this paper, I propose that alternative refers to the communicative politics of contestation
which take different interpretations across political contexts. I develop this argument by …

Extant research on alternative media in Western democracies has focused on scrutinizing
their content, organization, production, and audiences. However, the extent to which …

News has long been a contested concept but in the digital era it has become increasingly
fractured and multidimensional. This discursive article explores some of the ways in which …

ABSTRACT Declining democracy in Central America, from oppressive policies in El
Salvador and detaining journalists in Guatemala to emerging anti-press rhetoric in Costa …

The article aims to consider multicultural discourse through the prism of media coverage.
Contemporary media are characterized from the political engagement perspective, and that …

Over the past decade, the effects of digitization on Turkey's national and local press have
significantly increased. In this study, the authors delve into the specific impact of the COVID …

This research presents a comprehensive analysis of news articles with the primary
objectives of exploring the underlying structure of the data and detecting events contained …