Message posted on 10/01/2025
CfP 4S open panel - Making Sustainability Claims in the Digital Age
Dear colleagues, We are thrilled to announce the CfP to our open panel at the 4S Conference in Seattle (September 3rd to 7th, 2025). The deadline for abstracts is January 31st (250 words). Title: Making Sustainability Claims in the Digital Age: Socio-technical perspectives on eco economic decoupling through digital Discussant: Dominic Boyer (Rice University) Organizers: Felipe Figueiredo (fefi@itu.dk), Vivian Wei Guo (viwe@itu.dk), Christine Hansen (chbh@itu.dk), IT University of Copenhagen. Abstract: This panel focuses on the grounds of claims making for sustainability enacted by digital technologies, from a socio-technical perspective. As the world faces growing pressures to address the compound socio-environmental crises of the present, capital led digitalization is being framed as a process facilitating eco-economic decoupling. From promises of gains in efficiency through digitising electric grids, the vagaries of artificial intelligence, the pervasiveness of the internet of things' sensors, we see digital technologies being employed by ecomodernist approaches, such as those seen in the notion of 'twin transition' or those relating to 'green growth'. Critiques of these approaches point to the destructive and extractivist forces behind these crises, proposing alternatives through degrowth or ecosocialist class struggle. By exploring how digital technologies connect with socioenvironmental concerns, we expect to contribute with discussions that help us navigate towards sustainable socio-technical futures. Thus, we ask: How do sustainability claims and digital technologies recursively shape one another and reverberate across localised perspectives and practices? What are the types of disparities or contradictions, inherent or socially constructed, related to this process, and how do they manifest themselves? And how can STS inspired methodologies and conceptual frameworks help us understand the complexities of such claims? We invite methodological, conceptual, and theoretical contributions to open discussions about techno-solutionist perspectives, digital labor, data-driven decision making, as well as infrastructural development embedded in the social and environmental aspects of our digital worlds. Submissions link: https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions_seattle.php Panel ID: 146 Deadline: January the 31st We are very much looking forward to receiving your abstracts. Best, Felipe Figueiredo, Vivian Wei Guo, Christine Hansen. EASST's Eurograd mailing list -- eurograd-easst.net@lists.easst.net Archive: https://lists.easst.net/hyperkitty/list/eurograd-easst.net@lists.easst.net/ Edit your delivery settings there using Account dropdown, Mailman settings. Website: https://easst.net/easst_eurograd/ Meet us on Mastodon: https://assemblag.es/@easst Or X: https://twitter.com/STSeasstview formatted text
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