Abstract

Along with the electoral success of right-wing populism in Western countries, we witness today the proliferation of citizen-led alternative media operations on the right. These media types are challenging traditional journalism by discussing issues that most would consider unacceptable and phobic in the public discourse. Incommoded commentators have been quick to condemn them as ‘evil media’, but Professor Kristoffer Holt (Gulf University of Science and Technology) believes that we should approach them scientifically. In his book Right-wing Alternative Media (2020), Holt asks simple, yet tricky, questions like whether right-wing media can be conceptually alternative and, if so, why they exist.