Contact
Areas of expertise
Biography
Selcen Erten Johansson is a Turkish linguist with a background in languages, both personally and professionally. After completing her schooling in Türkiye, Latvia, and Sweden, where she conducted linguistic analyses and studied several languages, she worked and studied at Michigan State University as a Fulbright scholar. In December 2019, she earned her Master's degree in Linguistics from Mersin University, Türkiye. During her Master's studies, she focused on analyzing languages in digital contexts, specializing in applying digital methods to Turkish grammar. This specialization led her to the Digital Linguistics program at the University of Turku in August 2021. She investigates web text varieties with a focus on Turkish, by combining corpus linguistics with media discourse analysis at the University of Turku.
Teaching
Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology course at the University of Turku, September 2024.
Turkish as a foreign language at Turun Suomenkielinen Työväenopisto, September 2023 - April 2024.
Automatic Text Processing course at the University of Turku, October - December 2023.
Automatic Text Processing course at the University of Turku, October - December 2022.
General English and English Academic Writing at Toros University, Türkiye, September 2016 - June 2020.
Turkish as a foreign language at Michigan State University, the USA, August 2015 - May 2016.
Research
The internet is a primary source for information, offering various text types - known as web registers - such as news reports, newspaper columns, and internet forums. Defining and examining these web registers' linguistic characteristics is essential. Without it, the purposes and functions of online texts may become ambiguous, diminishing media literacy and raising concerns about the reliability of internet usage.
Currently, Selcen Erten Johansson is applying the study of Turkish web registers to recent political events featured in Turkish media. Specifically, she analyzes how Finland's NATO membership process is portrayed in Turkish media through news reports, newspaper columns, and internet forums.
This research is supported by a grant from the Eino Jutikkala Fund of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters for the period 2024–2026.