Generation X, Y and Z and digital language practices: Intra- and intergenerational meaning-making, adaptation and attitudes (XYZdigi)
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Project description
The sociolinguistic research project XYZdigi examines whether there are generational differences in Finland-Swedish digital language practices, how different generations understand and possibly adapt to each other and how they experience each other's digital language practices. The project's focus is on 15–25-year-olds (younger), about 40–50-year-olds (middle-aged) and language users that are over 65 years (older). The Finland-Swedish digital language practices from the mid-2020s are also compared with those of Sweden-Swedish, Finnish and Danish language users.
Data collection in XYZdigi takes place in three stages:
- ethnographic fieldwork in Finland and Denmark (2025–2026, with a focus on Finland-Swedish and Danish digital language practices)
- role-play experiments in Finland (2026–2027, with a focus on Finland-Swedish digital language practices)
- a sociolinguistic survey in Finland, Sweden and Denmark (2027, with a focus on Finland-Swedish, Finnish, Sweden-Swedish and Danish digital language practices).
The project is based in the University of Jyväskylä (with Åsa Palviainen as the project leader) and carried out in collaboration with the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. The project is financed by the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland (2025–2028).
Here below you will find the privacy notice and research notification (for the ethnographic fieldwork in Finland) for the research participants.
