The aim of this study is to increase the understanding of how the alternative media site Avpixlat strategically communicates its image of Swedish society, how this image is perceived by its readers and what implications it might have for democracy. With a dialectic approach, the communication has been examined from both sender and reader perspectives, using rhetoric- and reception analyses. The empirical material consists of articles from Avpixlat, including readers’ comments, which have been compiled through qualitative textual analyses and analyzed hermeneutically. The empirical evidence has thereafter been contextualized through relevant theories and concepts within the research fields of social sciences and strategic communi- cation, in...