Artificial intelligence mediating the everyday information practices of young people

AIM

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. By using co-research methods, the project explores how these interactions shape young peoples' information environments, practices, agency, and identities.

Project information

Project duration

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Funded by

Other Finnish

Project funder

Kone Foundation

Funding amount

290 900 EUR

Project coordinator

University of Oulu

Unit and faculty

History, Culture and Communication Studies
Faculty of Humanities

Contact information

Project leader

Other persons

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.