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Please consider submitting an abstract to the following panel on emerging

worlds of eating at this year's EASST/4S Conference (18-21 August 2020,

Prague, https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/)



Open Panel 54: Emerging Worlds of Eating: Interrogating the digitalisation,

datafication and platformisation of food



Deadline for abstract submissions: 29 February 2020



Notification of abstract acceptance: 15 April 2020



Convenors: Tanja Schneider (University of St Gallen); Jeremy Brice (London

School of Economics and Political Science); Karin Eli (University of Warwick)



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

j.brice@lse.ac.uk,

tanja.schneider@unisg.ch, or

karin.eli@anthro.ox.ac.uk

Best wishes,



Jeremy, Tanja and Karin



Dr Jeremy Brice

LSE Fellow in Economy, Risk & Society

Department of Sociology

London School of Economics and Political Science

London, WC2A 2AE



Email: j.brice@lse.ac.uk

Phone: 020 7955 6793

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