Speculative F(r)ictions: A Youth Restorying Horror and Monstrosity

Corbitt, Alex

doi:10.1177/1086296x231215778

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“…1. As this manuscript was going to press, another article was published that, similarly, explores “speculative frictions” in young people’s compositions (Corbitt, 2023). While the focus and theoretical orientation of these works are different, we see promising overlaps in their treatment of “the speculative” as contested terrain and hope the coincidence of their coterminous publication suggests momentum toward further inquiry into such tensions.…”

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Speculative frictions: writing civic futures after AI

Thrall,

Nichols,

Magill

2024

ETPC

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how young people imagine civic futures through speculative fiction writing about artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The authors argue that young people’s speculative fiction writing about AI not only helps make visible the ways they imagine the impacts of emerging technologies and the modes of collective action available for leveraging, resisting or countering them but also the frictions and fissures between the two. Design/methodology/approach This practitioner research study used data from student artifacts (speculative fiction stories, prewriting and relevant unit work) as well as classroom fieldnotes. The authors used inductive coding to identify emergent patterns in the ways young people wrote about AI and civics, as well as deductive coding using digital civic ecologies framework. Findings The findings of this study spotlight both the breadth of intractable civic concerns that young people associate with AI, as well as the limitations of the civic frameworks for imagining political interventions to these challenges. Importantly, they also indicate that the process of speculative writing itself can help reconcile this disjuncture by opening space to dwell in, rather than resolve, the tensions between “the speculative” and the “civic.” Practical implications Teachers might use speculative fiction writing and the digital civic ecologies framework to support students in critically examining possible AI futures and effective civic actions within them. Originality/value Speculative fiction writing offers an avenue for students to analyze the growing civic concerns posed by emerging platform technologies like AI.

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confidence: 99%