Dear colleagues,
Please see below a call for abstracts for our panel at the EASST/4S conference in Prague (18-21 August 2020).
Title: Emerging Worlds of Eating: Interrogating the digitalisation, datafication and platformisation of food (panel 54)
Convenors: Tanja Schneider, University of St Gallen; Jeremy Brice, London School of Economics and Political Science; Karin Eli, University of Warwick
Deadline for abstract submissions: 29 February 2020
Abstract: Food is increasingly caught up in processes of digitalisation, datafication and platformisation which are rapidly (if unevenly) reshaping exchange and interaction among those who produce, prepare, consume, (re)distribute and review it. These processes appeal to numerous values and logics: Food delivery services emphasize speed and convenience; surplus food redistribution apps promote sustainability by redirecting and revaluing the excess of conventional food commerce; and social dining platforms encourage unconventional socialities and economies around shared acts of cooking and eating. Meanwhile, platforms and devices promise consumer empowerment through knowledge: supply chain transparency platforms promise to demystify the provenance of food through aggregating data sourced from across the globe, while dietary tracking devices afford novel forms of digitised (self-)knowledge and modes of dietary intervention.
Elaborate socio-technical assemblages of people, capital, software and devices are thus engaged in reinventing foodstuffs and eating practices, along with the knowledges, affects and values which accompany them. In this session we aim to interrogate the diverse and intersecting logics which underpin, guide and govern the digitalisation, datafication and platformisation of food. In particular, we invite researchers working in critical innovation studies, food studies, studies of financialisation and capitalisation, and digital ethnography to join us in tracing the varied worlds of eating emerging around these socio-technical assemblages. In so doing, we hope to explore how the conventions, constraints and accumulation strategies of digital platforms, of data-driven innovation and of those invested in them both enact food futures and participate in ordering present day food cultures, materialities and practices. We welcome theoretical and/or empirical papers exploring themes including, but not limited to:
• Practices of digital food innovation
• Practices of digital eating, as enabled and maintained through mobile, sensor-based and digital technologies (e.g. dietary tracking)
• Digitally mediated cultures of food provisioning, preparation and consumption (including emerging communities, identities and subcultures)
• Interfaces between financialisation, datafication and platformisation (e.g. the role of investors in extending digital disruption to food)
• Conventions of and contests over the value, quality and ‘goodness’ of food within digital marketplaces (e.g. the role of reviews, ratings and recommendations)
• Non-/more-than capitalist logics of digitalisation and valuation
• Studies of food apps (e.g. platforms for food sharing, ethical food consumption, food delivery, food activism)
• Emerging forms of food-related digital labour (from food delivery logistics to app design and social media marketing)
• Inclusion, exclusion, enclosure and (in)equality within digital food economies
• Surveillance, transparency and knowledge (or ignorance) production within digital food economies and cultures
Abstract submission: Please submit an abstract of up to 250 words through the 4S/EASSTs website, using your personal login credentials. After you log in, click ‘Submit A New Proposal’, and then ‘Papers For Open Panels’. Scroll down through the list of open panels where you will find ‘Panel 54: Emerging Worlds of Eating: Interrogating the digitalisation, datafication and platformisation of food’. If you have any questions, or would like additional information about the panel, please contact us at [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], and [log in to unmask]
We look forward to receiving your abstracts!
Jeremy, Tanja and Karin
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