Samuli Björninen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Samuli Björninen is involved.
Articles
2019 The rhetoric of factuality in narrative: Appeals to authority in Claas Relotius’s feature journalism Real Fictions: Fictionality, factuality and narrative strategies in contemporary storytelling, Browse, Sam, Alison Gibbons and Mari Hatavara (eds.), pp. 352–370 | Article
The article presents a method for studying the factuality of narrative as a rhetoric. The need for such a method is apparent in the so-called post-truth climate, which sees us witnessing debates about semantic chimeras like “alternative facts” and “fake news.” The article arrives at its method… read more
Do AI stories align with the laws of the story economy? Narrative prototype and platformed alignment in LLMs Narrative Inquiry: Online-First Articles | Article
The article situates LLM-generated narratives within the twenty-first-century story economy by asking how they rework the storytelling patterns shaped by social media, algorithmic optimization, and the pursuit of the “compelling story.” Previous research has shown that stories gaining traction… read more