Artificial intelligence mediating the everyday information practices of young people

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.