Computers and Composition Jun 2025 Open Access

A posthumanist approach to AI literacy

Zhaozhe Wang University of Toronto ; Chaoran Wang Colby College

Abstract

How can posthumanism help us reframe AI-mediated literacy practices? And what implications does such reframing have for cultivating AI literacy in language and literacy education? This article explores these two imperative questions through a case study analyzing two multilingual undergraduate students’ meaning-making and meaning-negotiation intra-actions with AI technologies in a writing classroom. The case study reveals a productive tension between these students’ experiments with posthumanist literacy and their entrenched humanistic assumptions. Ultimately, through the case study, the authors hope to demonstrate that reframing and re-engaging with AI literacy through a posthumanist lens may offer students and educators a relational approach to developing and cultivating AI literacy.

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Computers and Composition
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2025-06-01
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10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102933
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