Functions metaphors framing GenAI as an efficient tool for routine and creative tasks were the most agreed-upon in the workshops¶
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q2 i? Participants' metaphors about GenAI's functions garnered the most ticks of agreement, with predominantly positive affect regarding work-related functions. → Carmen Vallis 2025
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Carmen Vallis 2025¶
Carmen Vallis, Stephanie Wilson, Alison Casey. (2025). Fear and Awe: Making Sense of Generative AI Through Metaphor. Journal of Interactive Media Education. https://doi.org/10.5334/jime.972
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Qualitative analysis of workshop metaphor artefacts. Participants strongly agreed with GenAI as an "augmenting device" (ticks on sticky notes), with metaphors like Swiss army knife, and valued its role as an "ideas generator" for initiating creative processes.
"The overall affect in this category was predominantly positive, particularly regarding work-related functions. In workshops, participants' metaphors about functions garnered the most ticks of agreement."
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Related Claims¶
- Collaborative metaphor workshops helped higher education staff and students make sense of GenAI and raised their awareness of its ethical dimensions — a broader claim this one bears on
- Role metaphors positioned GenAI as helper, learning partner, and friend/foe, with a high proportion combining friend and foe — related
- Agency metaphors expressed fear that GenAI steals human agency and threatens jobs, reflecting a binary human-versus-machine model — related
- Qualities metaphors depicted GenAI as unknowable, unreliable and unbounded, with participants unsettled by its opacity — related
- Most architecture students in the studios reported that the GenAI models used positively affected their creativity during the design process — related
- AIED research has predominantly framed AI as automation or personalization, privileging individual outcomes over social processes — related
- Student workshop participants saw AI's role as fluid — a shortcut for tasks with clear, predictable outcomes and a collaborator for uncertain, creative tasks — related
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Functions metaphors framing GenAI as an efficient tool for routine and creative tasks were the most agreed-upon in the workshops |
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Functions metaphors framing GenAI as an efficient tool for routine and creative tasks were the most agreed-upon in the workshops |
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