AUTOSTORY Project

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AUTOSTORY – Authors of the Story Economy: Narrative and Digital Capital in the 21st-Century Literary Field (RCF 2024–2025) studies the impact of social media on 21st-century literature and authors. https://autostoryproject.wordpress.com/

Is AI-generated writing inherently experimental, or does the logic of platform economies push it toward homogenization? In our new article, Tuuli Hongisto and I look at how LLMs and platformization influence literary output, contrasting the "AI slop" with the conceptual rigor of digital collage.

Reimagining Literature? AI, Textual Collage, and Literary Experimentation

This essay explores how large language models (LLMs) and digital platforms reshape literary practices through two contrasting case studies: AI Imagines: Classic Literature (2023) and Things of Interne...

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Apply to The Netherlands Winter School on Narrative: NARRATIVE AND AUTHORITY and meet P. Dawson, A. Georgakopoulou, A. Gibbons, S. Kjerkegaard and many others! Our AUTOSTORY project is proud and happy to co-organize this. DL for applications November 20, 2026. Winter School January 18–22, 2027.

Narrative and Authority

Teaming up with the AUTOSTORY project, the Netherlands Winter School on Narrative offers a one-week course consisting of lectures and workshops in which...

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Interested in narrative approaches in research, teaching, or society? The University of Groningen’s Narrative Winter School offers an intensive opportunity to engage with narrative methods in an international, interdisciplinary setting. More information and application details:

Narrative and Authority

Teaming up with the AUTOSTORY project, the Netherlands Winter School on Narrative offers a one-week course consisting of lectures and workshops in which...

rug.nl

According to researchers Markku Lehtimäki and Laura Piippo, social media creates a subtle pressure for the authors to 🔸 simplify content, 🔸 amplify its emotional impact, 🔸 erase multidimensionality or ambiguity. 👉 Read more: www.utu.fi/en/news/auro...

Ten questions: How does social media influence literature?

The consortium “Autostory – Authors of the Story Economy”, which is funded by the Research Council of Finland, studies the impact of social media on 21st-century literature and authors.

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We are participating in the Narrative Winter School 2027 at the University of Groningen. The winter school "Narrative and Authority" focuses on the role of narratives in knowledge production, technology, and society, with particular attention to authority. Maybe we’ll see you there, too?

Narrative and Authority

Teaming up with the AUTOSTORY project, the Netherlands Winter School on Narrative offers a one-week course consisting of lectures and workshops in which...

rug.nl

Special issue of Frontiers of Narrative Studies 11/2 (Brill/De Gruyter), titled Narratives of Scandal and Shock: Transgression, Media, and Cultural Response is now out! Check out the articles by AUTOSTORY affiliates Hanna Lahdenperä, Tero Eljas Vanhanen, and Ville Hämäläinen!

Special lssue: Narratives of scandal and shock: Transgression, media, and cultural response

Volume 11, issue 2 of the journal Frontiers of Narrative Studies was published in 2025.

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A boundary 2 online special issue on literary value out now, after an unprecedentedly quick editing and peer-review process. I wrote on postdigital authorship, transmedial authorial ethos, story economy, social mobility as narrative capital & Édouard Louis: www.boundary2.org/the-question...

the question of literary value | special issue

Artwork by Lieke Verreussel, relation, ship (2025). Photo by Arne De Boever.  b2o: an online journal is an online-only, free-to-read, peer-reviewed journal published by the boundary 2 editorial collec...

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Next week, AUTOSTORY and SELMA Centre will co-organize a three-day symposium “The Return of Moral Didacticism?: Authority, Ethos, and Instruction” at the University of Turku, Finland. Keynote will be given by James Phelan, Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University, USA. Welcome!

Symposium 16.-18.10. The Return of Moral Didacticism? | SelmaCentre

In October 2025, the research project AUTOSTORY: Narrative and Digital Capital in the 21st-Century Literary Field (funded by the Research Council of Finland ...

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Active conference spring underway: The AUTOSTORY project has presented its preliminary ideas at both the Narrative Conference in Miami and Narrative Matters in Paris. The discussion continues, next up: Nordisk litteratursociologi (NOLS) 2025 in Helsinki!

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Tänään saimme viimein sanoa, että kyllä, saa laittaa painokoneet pyörimään, juhuu! Kirjan ovat toimittaneet Elina Arminen, Ralf Kauranen, Markku Lehtimäki, Hanna-Leena Määttä ja minä. Teos tulee saataville sekä painettuna että vapaasti verkossa @sksfinlit.bsky.social. Juhuu sillekin! #SKS 🎩📚

Romaanin tieto

Minkälaista tietoa romaani voi tuottaa? Millä tavalla romaanikirjailija osallistuu yhteiskunnalliseen keskusteluun? Millaisia ovat sekä kirjamuodon että kirjailijan työn muuttuvat muodot digitaalisen ...

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