In:The Tools Factor: Tracing the future of digital newswriting
Daniel Perrin
[Aspects in Applied Linguistics 1] 2026
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
Biographies
List of acronyms
Introduction
Chapter 1.Research question: How has tools development interacted with newswriting?
1.1Applied linguistics
1.2Transdisciplinarity
1.3Language industry
1.4Digital literacy, ethics, and creativity
1.5Combining research frameworks to understand writing at work
Box A.Beyond creativity: Serendipity and critical serendipity literacy
Chapter 2.State of research: The example of the digital literacy shifts in public discourse
2.1Text production practices in the professions
2.2Typologies in text production research
2.3Activity fields and writing phases
2.4From focused to fragmented writing
2.5The five-phase shift in mediatized public discourse
Box B.Turn by turn: Generative AI and the conversationalization of newswriting
Chapter 3.Methodology: Investigating writing at work in multi-layered contexts
3.1Interest in everyday language use and reflection
3.2Two complementary cultures of literacy research
3.3The French research line of genetic criticism
3.4A German call for progression analysis
3.5Extended progression analysis
Box C.From PA to PA-MM Meta-level reflections on progression analysis
Chapter 4.Findings: The case of implementing AI tools in a multilingual newsroom
4.1The activity field of Handling tools environment
4.2Activity layers
4.3Activity scopes
4.4Ethical dilemmas of AI use
4.5Creative emergent solutions
Box D.Tools as embodied ideologies: Metapragmatics and the co-production of AI technologies
Box E.Introducing editorial AI: An ecological approach to AI for news production
Chapter 5.Conclusion: Guidelines for future applied linguistics in the newsroom
5.1Widening the scope
5.2Going longitudinal
5.3Preparing for clean AI analyses
5.4Automatizing instant feedback
5.5Building trust
Box F.Trust and the human core: An editor-in-chief’s perspective on AI integration
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