"Shit makes sense": Generative AI and dialogicality in students' academic literacy practices

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The rise of generative artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing academic literacy practices among university students. From a sociolinguistic perspective, this raises questions about how this technology becomes an integrated part of students’ socialization into a disciplinary discourse community. In this presentation, we begin to address some of these questions by presenting a preliminary analysis of a data example from one of the AI-UNI case studies, a linguistic ethnography of the use of generative AI among first-year university students in a health-science program. By drawing on a combination of sound, video and screen recordings from a single study session between a group of students, the analysis shows how generative AI becomes embedded in situated social practice as part of students’ dialogic co-construction of knowledge. Based on this analysis, we will offer some thoughts on what it means to be academically literate in the age of generative AI.

Periode	6 nov. 2025
Begivenhedstitel	CIP Symposium 2025: New literacies: The role of multilingualism and generative AI
Begivenhedstype	Konference
Placering	Copenhagen, DanmarkVis på kort