Generation X, Y and Z and digital language practices: Intra- and intergenerational meaning-making, adaptation and attitudes (XYZdigi)

The project examines the extent to which there are generational differences in Finland Swedish digital language use, how different generations (X, Y and Z) understand and possibly adapt to each other and how they experience each other's digital language use. Finland Swedish digital language practices from the mid-2020s are also compared with the corresponding Sweden Swedish, Finnish and Danish.
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Table of contents

Project duration
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Core fields of research
Languages, culture and society
Information technology and the human in the knowledge society
Research areas
Media landscapes, uses and practices
Discourses, identities and mobilities
Multiliteracies and knowledge construction
Department
Department of Language and Communication Studies
Co-operation
University of Gothenburg, University of Copenhagen
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Funding
Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland
(Society of Swedish Literature in Finland)

Project description

The project XYZdigi examines the extent to which there are generational differences in Finland Swedish digital language use, how different generations understand and possibly adapt to each other and how they experience each other's digital language use. The research project is sociolinguistic, and it focuses on Finland Swedish digital language use by generations X (1965–1980), Y (1981–1996) and Z (1997–2012). It also aims to find out how Finland Swedish digital language practices from the mid-2020s differ from the corresponding Sweden Swedish, Finnish and Danish.

The project is carried out at the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ in collaboration with the University of Gothenburg and the University of Copenhagen. XYZdigi is financed by in the years 2025–2028.

Project team

External members

Ã…sa Wengelin

Professor

Andreas Candefors Stæhr

Associate Professor

Marianne Haugaard Skov

Researcher