About
Ihlebæk is professor in journalism at OsloMet where she is part of the Digital Journalism Research Group. Ihlebæk is affiliated with C-REX and POLKOM at the University of Oslo. She has previously worked at the University of Oslo and the Ministry of Culture, and has had part-time positions at NTNU and the Institute for Social Research. Her research interests include journalism, alternative media, participation, platform power and media policy. Ihlebæk has twice won prices for best academic journal article - Challenging Journalistic Authority published in Journalism Studies (with Tine Ustad Figenschou, OsloMet) and Journalism, Solidarity and the Civil Sphere. The Case of Charlie Hebdo published in European Journal of Communication (with Maria Luengo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid). She has been the editor of Norsk medietidsskrift together with Bente Kalsnes, and is currently an editorial member of Journalistica. Ihlebæk is co-leading the research project Far-Right Politics Online and Societal Resilience together with Kari Steen-Johnsen at ISF. The project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council. She also involved in the NORDFORSK-reseach project PastForward, The political uses of the past in digital discourses about Nordic futures, led by the University of Copenhagen.
Research groups
Research projects
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Far-right Politics Online and Societal Resilience (FREXO)
The FREXO project investigates how online media affect the mobilizing capacity and the broader societal and political impact of far right politics.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Frischlich, Lena; Eldridge, Scott; Figenschou, Tine Ustad; Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea; Holt, Kristoffer; Cushion, Stephen
(2023).
Contesting the Mainstream: Towards an Audience-Centered Agenda of Alternative News Research.
Digital Journalism.
Vol. 11.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2214791
Steensen, Steen; Figenschou, Tine Ustad; Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea
(2023).
Playing the Mainstream Game. A Language-Game Analysis of “Mainstream” as a Possible Boundary Object in Journalism Studies.
18 p.
Digital Journalism.
Vol. 11.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2180406
Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea; Figenschou, Tine Ustad
(2023).
Journalism as a Strategic Action Field: How to Study Contestations and Power Dynamics between Professional Journalism and Its Challengers.
Digital Journalism.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2214901
Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea; Figenschou, Tine Ustad
(2022).
Knock, knock! Right-wing alternative media is at the door. Institutional boundary work in a hybrid media environment.
Ferrucci, Patrick; Elddridge II, Scott A. (Ed.).
The Institutions Changing Journalism. Barbarians Inside the Gate. p. 15-31.
Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/978100f3140399
Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea; Figenschou, Tine Ustad
(2022).
Innenfor eller utenfor? Høyrevridde alternative medier og forhandling om grenser i den journalistiske institusjonen.
18 p.
Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning.
Vol. 63.
https://doi.org/10.18261/tfs.63.4.1
Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea; Figenschou, Tine Ustad; Eldridge, Scott; Frischlich, Lena; Cushion, Stephen; Holt, Kristoffer
(2022).
Understanding Alternative News Media and Its Contribution to Diversity.
15 p.
Digital Journalism.
Vol. 10.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2022.2134165
Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea; Sundet, Vilde Schanke
(2021).
Global platforms and asymmetrical power: Industry dynamics and opportunities for policy change.
New Media & Society.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211029662
Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea; Holter, Carina Riborg
(2021).
Hostile emotions: An exploratory study of far-right online commenters and their emotional connection to traditional and alternative news media.
16 p.
Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism.
Vol. 22.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884920985726
Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea; Nygaard, Silje
(2021).
Right-wing alternative media in the Scandinavian political communication landscape.
Skogerbø, Eli; Ihlen, Øyvind; Kristensen, Nete Nørgaard; Nord, Lars W. (Ed.).
Power, communication, and politics in the Nordic countries. p. 263-282.
Nordicom.
https://doi.org/10.48335/9789188855299-13
Haanshuus, Birgitte P.; Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea
(2021).
Recontextualising the news: How antisemitic discourses are constructed in extreme far-right alternative media.
Nordicom Review.
Vol. 42.
https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0005
