Lauri Haapanen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Lauri Haapanen is involved.

Titles

The Tools Factor: Tracing the future of digital newswriting

Daniel Perrin

The Tools Factor is about to dominate what people write and read, know and believe to know. In this book, we explain how digital tools and agentive AI shape – and are shaped by – text production, ethics, and creativity in the newsroom. Based on thirty years of longitudinal ethnographies in research… read more

[Aspects in Applied Linguistics, 1] 2026. x, 80 pp. | open access

Linguistic Recycling: The process of quoting in increasingly mediatized settings

Edited by Lauri Haapanen and Daniel Perrin

“She said that he said that they said…” – in this volume of the AILA Review, we investigate linguistic recycling from complementary angles. In particular, we discuss how and for whom language users – both as individuals and as communities – save resources and create value by quoting and… read more

[AILA Review, 33] 2020. iv, 225 pp.

Haapanen, Lauri 2021 Chapter 7. Journalists’ use of social media: A paradigmatic shift towards restoring audience trust through wide-ranging engagement Participation, Engagement and Collaboration in Newsmaking: A postfoundational perspective, Declercq, Jana, Geert Jacobs, Felicitas Macgilchrist and Astrid Vandendaele (eds.), pp. 151–174 | Chapter

This paper shows that journalists are gradually taking greater advantage of social media and the interactional affordances it offers. This means, firstly, that journalists can benefit from social media not only by monitoring conversations, but also by participating in and initiating them.… read more

Haapanen, Lauri and Daniel Perrin 2020 Linguistic recycling: The process of quoting in increasingly mediatized settings Linguistic Recycling: The process of quoting in increasingly mediatized settings, Haapanen, Lauri and Daniel Perrin (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Introduction

Haapanen, Lauri and Leo Leppänen 2020 Recycling a genre for news automation: The production of Valtteri the Election Bot Linguistic Recycling: The process of quoting in increasingly mediatized settings, Haapanen, Lauri and Daniel Perrin (eds.), pp. 67–85 | Article

The amount of available digital data is increasing at a tremendous rate. These data, however, are of limited use unless converted into a user-friendly form. We took on this task and built a natural language generation (NLG) driven system that generates journalistic news stories about elections… read more

Haapanen, Lauri and Daniel Perrin 2019 Chapter 1. Translingual quoting in journalism: Behind the scenes of Swiss television newsrooms Journalism and Translation in the Era of Convergence, Davier, Lucile and Kyle Conway (eds.), pp. 15–42 | Chapter

This chapter focuses on translingual quoting (TQ), i.e. the sub-process of news-writing by which utterances from sources are both quoted and translated. Analyses of journalists’ mental and material activities suggest conceptualizing TQ as a complex and dynamic activity in which journalists’… read more