Blasting the Elephant: Reconceptualizing Right-Wing “Alternative News” as Republican “Digital Surrogates”

• In Event: The Right, Populism, and the Press

Brief Overview

We show how Republican MoCs adopt narratives from right-wing media and argue that these alternative media organizations are better understood as digital surrogates that serve as part of the extended party network.

Authors

• Curd Knüpfer, Free University of Berlin

• Yunkang Yang, Texas A&M University - College Station

• Mike Cowburn, European University Viadrina Frankfurt