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Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk

Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk

Job title
  • Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 48, 0167 Oslo
  • Office number: S451
Phone
  • Mobile: +47 915 60 837
  • Office: +47 672 37 385
E-mail
  • karoline.ihlebaek@oslomet.no
Affiliation

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. 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.

Ihlebæk is part of the EU Cost Action network 'Redressing Radical Polarisation: Strengthening European Civil Spheres facing Illiberal Digital Media'. She leads the working group 'Designing practical tools to counter, redress and prevent radical polarisation'. For more information: https://depolarising.eu/.

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Publications and research

Scientific publications

Olsen, Gunhild Ring; Figenschou, Tine Ustad ; Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea ; Kalsnes, Bente (2026). News media lobbying and the EU’s Digital Services Act: Strategies and experiences from the small non-EU state of Norway. Nordicom Review. Vol. 47.
https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2026-0001

Steen-Johnsen, Kari; Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea ; Kalsnes, Bente (2025). Freedom of Speech. Nai, Alessandro; Grömping, Max; Wirz, Dominique (Ed.). Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Edward Elgar Publishing.
https://doi.org/https://www.elgaronline.com/displa

Steen-Johnsen, Kari; Fladmoe, Audun; Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea (2025). Right-wing alternative media users in Scandinavia: A comparative study of ideological attitudes and (dis)trust. Nordicom Review. Vol. 46.
https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2025-0019

Figenschou, Tine Ustad ; Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea (2025). Conceptualizations, Contentions and Systemic Conditions: A Response to Competing for Cultural Authority. Journalism Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2025.2454336

Figenschou, Tine Ustad ; Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea (2025). Challengers to Journalism: Alternative Media Editors’ Framing of Editorial Values and Practices. Journalism Practice.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2025.2538121

Røsok-Dahl, Heidi ; Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea (2024). Young People and News: A Systematic Literature Review. Journalism Studies. Vol. 25.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2024.2372425

Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea ; Figenschou, Tine Ustad ; Olsen, Ragnhild Kristine (2024). Norway: Media Welfare in a Small Nation. Schapals, Aljosha Karim; Pentzold, Christian (Ed.). Media Compass: A Companion to International Media Landscapes. p. 106-119. Wiley-Blackwell.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3747766

Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea ; Figenschou, Tine Ustad (2024). Challengers in the journalistic field – A study of alternative media and their relations to incumbents, governance units, the state, and each other. Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241309848

Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea ; Figenschou, Tine Ustad (2024). Alternative media and political campaigning. Lilleker, Darren G.; Jackson, Daniel; Kalsnes, Bente; Mellado, Claudia; Trevisan, Filippo; Veneti, Anastasia (Ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning. Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003333326-24

Pedersen, Leif; Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea ; Figenschou, Tine Ustad ; Mayerhöffer, Eva (2024). Boundary Work in the Nordic Media Model: Metajournalistic Discourse on Alternative Media in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Journalism Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2024.2385925



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Research reports

Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea ; Figenschou, Tine Ustad ; Haanshuus, Birgitte P. (2020). What is the relationship between the far right and the media?. 3 p. 7Letras.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4146376

Staksrud, Elisabeth; Steen-Johnsen, Kari; Enjolras, Bernard; Gustafsson, Maria Helena; Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea ; Midtbøen, Arnfinn Haagensen; Sætrang, Synne ; Trygstad, Sissel; Utheim, Maria (2014). Ytringsfrihet i Norge : Holdninger og erfaringer i befolkningen : Resultater fra befolkningsundersøkelsen 2014. ISBN: 9788277634432. 130 p. Institutt for samfunnsforskning/Fritt Ord.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2389658

Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea ; Maasø, Arnt (2007). Om kulturdekningen i Colosseum, Colosseum Spesial, SAAB, Sarahs fornemmelse av kultur, Absolutt Underholdning, Kulturbeitet og Store Studio. 55 p. Medietilsynet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5229237



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Dissemination

Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea ; Figenschou, Tine Ustad (2025). Journalistic Authority and Professional Media Associations: A Study of Contentions About Inclusion or Exclusion of Alternative Media. 75th Annual Conference. ICA.
https://doi.org/https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.icahdq.o

Haanshuus, Birgitte P.; Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea (2025). Far-right perspectives on polarization. NordMedia 2025. University of Southern Denmark.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3803117

Figenschou, Tine Ustad ; Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea (2025). Challengers to Journalism: Alternative Media Editors’ Framing of Editorial Values and Practices. Journalism Practice.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2025.2538121

Olsen, Gunhild Ring; Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea ; Figenschou, Tine Ustad ; Kalsnes, Bente (2024). News media lobbying and platform regulation - a case study of the Digital Services Act and the struggle for editorial autonomy. Norsk Medieforskerkonferanse. Norsk Medieforskerlag.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4510293

Steen-Johnsen, Kari; Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea ; Fladmoe, Audun (2024). Users of right-wing alternative media in Scandinavia: ideological attitudes and (dis)trust. POLKOM-mandag. POLKOM - Senter for studier av politisk kommunikasjon.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3805271

Olsen, Gunhild Ring; Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea ; Figenschou, Tine Ustad ; Kalsnes, Bente (2024). Exemption? For whom? Platform regulation and news media lobbying. ECREA 2024: Communication & social (dis)order . European Communication Conference (ECREA).
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3727303

Pedersen, Leif Hemming; Figenschou, Tine Ustad ; Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea ; Mayerhöffer, Eva (2023). Boundary-work in the Nordic media model: A comparative analysis of institutional responses to alternative media in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Future of Journalism. School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4837391

Figenschou, Tine Ustad ; Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea (2023). The social skills of alternative media. Future of Journalism. School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5115290

Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea ; Figenschou, Tine Ustad (2023). Studying media criticism: an analytical model. Future of Journalism. School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3389943

Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea ; Figenschou, Tine Ustad (2023). Understanding the challenger: ​ The social skills of alternative media​. Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance Seminar series. University of Canberra.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4687800



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