What is the role of alternative media?

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A look at the website of the German weekly newspaper ’Junge Freiheit&rsquo
A look at the website of the German weekly newspaper ’Junge Freiheit’. Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)

There are two sides to every coin and it is good journalistic practice to take a look at both sides. In recent years, however, the media landscape has increasingly given the impression that there are more than two sides to the coin, indeed that it may not even be a coin at all. At times, there is talk of a corrective that these alternative media want to provide to the established outlets.

Ines Engelmann from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and her team want to investigate these alternative political online media in more detail in cooperation with the Technische Universität Ilmenau. ...

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