Artificial intelligence mediating the everyday information practices of young people
AIM
Project information
Project duration
-
Funded by
Other Finnish
Project funder
Funding amount
290 900 EUR
Project coordinator
University of Oulu
Unit and faculty
Contact information
Project leader
- Professor
Other persons
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Post-doctoral researcher
Project description
The AIM-project will create knowledge of the impact of AI systems in the everyday lives of young people with an emphasis on the information practices that are reshaped due to the use of these technologies. It does this by engaging young Finnish people in meaningful conversations about their everyday encounters with AI systems and, using co-research methods, explores how these interactions shape their information environments, practices, agency, and identities.
The project objectives are 1) To examine the ways AI systems are present in young people’s everyday information practices; 2) To explore how young people experience and understand AI systems as part of their everyday information practices and in constructing their identities and agency; and 3) To create new knowledge and resources with young people for AI education and decision-making.
AIM makes use of co-research methods to explore young people’s AI experiences, agency, and practices from their own perspectives. Co-research methods allow research done with rather than on young people and gaining the kind of knowledge about their everyday lives that cannot be reached with traditional, adult-centric methods. As co-researchers, young people take an active role in research activities including data collection and analysis and are considered as experts in their daily lives and of their own needs and practices.
Project results
Research papers:
Hirvonen, N. (2024) Information literacy after the AI revolution. Journal of Information Literacy 18(1), Special 50th Information Literacy Anniversary Issue, https://doi.org/10.11645/18.1.593
Kinnula, M., Durall Gazulla E., Hirvonen, N., Malmberg, J. & Haukipuro, L. (2024) Nurturing systems thinking among young people by developing business innovations on sustainable AI. International Journal of Child Computer Interaction 40, 100656, Special issue on MakerSPACE\\SPACEmaking, doi: 10.1016/j.ijcci.2024.100656.
Durall Gazulla, E., Hirvonen, N., Sharma, S., Hartikainen, H., Jylhä, V., Iivari, N., Kinnula, M., Baizhanova, A. (2024) Youth perspectives on technology ethics: Analysis of teens’ ethical reflections on AI in learning activities. Behaviour & Information Technology, 1–24 (Special Issue on Learning, Design & Technology) doi: 10.1080/0144929X.2024.2350666
Hirvonen, N., Lao, Y., Jylhä, V., Larsson, S. (online first) Artificial intelligence in the information ecosystem: affordances for everyday information seeking. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, doi: 10.1002/asi.24860
Conference proceedings:
Posters:
Huttunen, A., Nygård, T. & Hirvonen, N. (2024). Artificial intelligence mediating the everyday information practices of young people. 7th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, 9.-12. January 2024, Helsinki, Finland.
Nygård, T., Huttunen, A. & Hirvonen, N. (2023). Artificial intelligence mediating the everyday information practices of young people. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 60(1), 1089–1091. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.954 86th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 27.-31. October 2023, London, UK.