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Auteurs principaux: Tan, Xiao, Xu, Wei, Wang, Chaoran
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Publié: 2024
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author Tan, Xiao
Xu, Wei
Wang, Chaoran
author_facet Tan, Xiao
Xu, Wei
Wang, Chaoran
contents Voice, the discursive construction of the writer's identity, has been extensively studied and theorized in composition studies. In multimodal writing, students are able to mobilize both linguistic and non linguistic resources to express their real or imagined identities. But at the same time, when students are limited to choose from available online resources, their voices might be compromised due to the incompatibility between their authorial intentions and the existing materials. This study, therefore, investigates whether the use of generative AI tools could help student authors construct a more consistent voice in multimodal writing. In this study, we have designed a photo essay assignment where students recount a story in the form of photo essays and prompt AI image generating tools to create photos for their storytelling. Drawing on interview data, written reflection, written annotation, and multimodal products from seven focal participants, we have identified two remixing practices, through which students attempted to establish a coherent and unique voice in writing. The study sheds light on the intentional and discursive nature of multimodal writing with AI as afforded by the technological flexibility, while also highlighting the practical and ethical challenges that could be attributed to students insufficient prompt and multimodal literacy and the innate limitations of AI systems. This study provides important implications for incorporating AI tools in designing multimodal writing tasks.
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spellingShingle Purposeful remixing with generative AI: Constructing designer voice in multimodal composing
Tan, Xiao
Xu, Wei
Wang, Chaoran
Computers and Society
Voice, the discursive construction of the writer's identity, has been extensively studied and theorized in composition studies. In multimodal writing, students are able to mobilize both linguistic and non linguistic resources to express their real or imagined identities. But at the same time, when students are limited to choose from available online resources, their voices might be compromised due to the incompatibility between their authorial intentions and the existing materials. This study, therefore, investigates whether the use of generative AI tools could help student authors construct a more consistent voice in multimodal writing. In this study, we have designed a photo essay assignment where students recount a story in the form of photo essays and prompt AI image generating tools to create photos for their storytelling. Drawing on interview data, written reflection, written annotation, and multimodal products from seven focal participants, we have identified two remixing practices, through which students attempted to establish a coherent and unique voice in writing. The study sheds light on the intentional and discursive nature of multimodal writing with AI as afforded by the technological flexibility, while also highlighting the practical and ethical challenges that could be attributed to students insufficient prompt and multimodal literacy and the innate limitations of AI systems. This study provides important implications for incorporating AI tools in designing multimodal writing tasks.
title Purposeful remixing with generative AI: Constructing designer voice in multimodal composing
topic Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19095