A case study of two multilingual undergraduates reveals a productive tension between students' experiments with posthumanist AI literacy and their entrenched humanistic assumptions¶

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q2 i? Two multilingual undergraduate writers' AI-mediated literacy practices showed a productive tension between posthumanist experimentation and entrenched humanistic assumptions about agency and meaning-making. → Zhaozhe Wang 2025

Evidence¶

Zhaozhe Wang 2025¶

Zhaozhe Wang, Chaoran Wang. (2025). A posthumanist approach to AI literacy. Computers and Composition 76 (2025) 102933. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102933

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Qualitative case study of two multilingual undergraduates (Zhimo and Asuka) in writing-intensive courses, drawing on drafts, AI logs, written reflections, and 1.5–2 hour interviews, analyzed thematically through a critical AI literacy model and posthuman theory. The authors state the study "reveals a productive tension between these students' experiments with posthumanist literacy and their entrenched humanistic assumptions."

"The case study reveals a productive tension between these students' experiments with posthumanist literacy and their entrenched humanistic assumptions."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Digital Literacy — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• A guided posthumanist writing experiment showed a student internalizing a posthumanist ontology, yet her evaluative criteria remained human-centric — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• One focal student exhibited a critical-pragmatic humanistic AI literacy, conceptualizing AI as a manipulable tool and evaluating it by rhetorical efficiency — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Despite a student's claims of purely human authorial agency, posthumanist analysis of his AI-mediated revision shows meaning co-produced through human-AI entanglement — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• The two students' distinct AI literacy approaches may be shaped by differing rhetorical objectives, genres, and audiences of their writing tasks — related
• The agent/consumer distinction is not primarily technical sophistication but capacity to interrogate the assumptions of AI outputs — related