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.
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