Samuli Björninen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6694349 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuli Björninen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuli |
| FAMILY NAME | Björninen |
| SIGNATURE | BJÖRNINEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5325-4413 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Do AI stories align with the laws of the story economy?
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 on social media conform to the experiential narrative prototype outlined by sociolinguistics and cognitive narratology, and that this prototype overlaps wi…
Limits of Narrative
The introduction to this forum lays out the background for the theoretical issues concerning the limits of narrative, and sets the individual articles in the context of that larger debate
Faktat ja narratiivit
Narrative as social action
Many sociologists have called for analytical rigor in the study of narrative while maintaining that narrative should be viewed as a form of social action. We argue that the narratological story-discourse distinction together with positioning theory provides a theoretical basis for such rigor. In narratology, story denotes the events in the world of the narrative, while discourse is the text that communicates them. This distinction helps us see ho…
The rhetoric of factuality in narrative
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 by tackling challenges arising both in narrative theory and in fictionality studies. This involves developing models that let us take into account both the…
Narrative as social action
Many sociologists have called for analytical rigor in the study of narrative while maintaining that narrative should be viewed as a form of social action. We argue that the narratological story-discourse distinction together with positioning theory provides a theoretical basis for such rigor. In narratology, story denotes the events in the world of the narrative, while discourse is the text that communicates them. This distinction helps us see ho…
The rhetoric of factuality in narrative
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 by tackling challenges arising both in narrative theory and in fictionality studies. This involves developing models that let us take into account both the…
The rhetoric of factuality in narrative
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 by tackling challenges arising both in narrative theory and in fictionality studies. This involves developing models that let us take into account both the…
Narrative as social action
Many sociologists have called for analytical rigor in the study of narrative while maintaining that narrative should be viewed as a form of social action. We argue that the narratological story-discourse distinction together with positioning theory provides a theoretical basis for such rigor. In narratology, story denotes the events in the world of the narrative, while discourse is the text that communicates them. This distinction helps us see ho…
Faktat ja narratiivit
Limits of Narrative
The introduction to this forum lays out the background for the theoretical issues concerning the limits of narrative, and sets the individual articles in the context of that larger debate
Do AI stories align with the laws of the story economy?
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 on social media conform to the experiential narrative prototype outlined by sociolinguistics and cognitive narratology, and that this prototype overlaps wi…
Narrative (3 works) · Narrative Theory and Analysis (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Action (physics (1 work)