Postdoctor Receives Funding for Project on AI and News Use

Postdoctoral Fellow Marianne Borchgrevink-Brækhus has been awarded funding from the Norwegian Media Authority for her project on artificial intelligence in Norwegian, editor-controlled media.

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Postdoctoral Fellow Marianne Borchgrevink-Brækhus has been awarded funding from the Norwegian Media Authority for her project on artificial intelligence in Norwegian, editor-controlled media.

Published: 11 February 2026 (Updated: 12 February 2026)

Marianne Borchgrevink‑Brækhus has been granted NOK 796,000 for the project “News Use, AI, and Critical Media Literacy – An Audience Perspective on Artificial Intelligence in Editor‑Controlled Norwegian Media.” She will explore the understandings and attitudes that underpin Norwegian media users’ general skepticism toward the use of AI in news production, and what shapes these perceptions.

 - From previous projects, I have the impression that many people have quite strong opinions about the use of AI in news dissemination and journalism, and that it is a topic that engages the public.

 - This also makes it very exciting to study, so I am very happy to have received funding and look forward to starting the project, says Borchgrevink‑Brækhus.

Borchgrevink‑Brækhus completed her PhD in 2025 with the dissertation “News Experience,” which examined six types of news experiences and showed how news use is shaped not only by content but also by bodily, material, and technological dimensions, as well as spatial, temporal, and social contexts. From February 2026, she is a postdoctoral fellow in the research project IMAGINE – Citizen Perceptions of AI in Everyday Media Life (external link), which investigates how Norwegians perceive AI in the media.

The Norwegian Media Authority

The Norwegian Media Authority is the national regulatory and administrative body for the media sector and works to implement the government’s media policy objectives. Each year, it allocates funding to research projects on media diversity and critical media literacy.

Read more about this year’s allocations (external link).

The IMAGINE project

IMAGINE is a research project funded by the Research Council of Norway (NFR) that examines ordinary people’s perceptions of AI in the media. The goal is to uncover “folk theories” about AI—how individuals imagine and make sense of these technologies based on their own everyday experiences.

Read more about IMAGINE

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