We are happy to share the preliminary work on digital foodscapes, the result of a very productive scoping workshop with wonderful colleagues in Hannover last February (funded by Volkswagenstiftung - thank you!).
Autors are in alphabetical order:
Allgaier, Joachim, Tina Bartelmeß, Paulien Decorte, Rebecca Evans, Zeena Feldman, Melissa Fernandez, Francesca Forno, Christian Fuentes, Katharina Graf, Rafi Grosglik, Dai-In Danny Han, Samantha L. Huey, Laura M. König, Jonatan Leer, Tania Lewis, Anders Kristian Munk, Maria Giovanna Onorati, Fabio Parasecoli, Stephanie R. Partridge, Maren C. Podszun, Lizzie Richardson, Sofia Rüdiger, Tanja Schneider, Gudrun Sproesser, Jan Wirsam and Martijn Zoet. 2025. Digital Foodscapes: Past - Present - Future. Position Paper.
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/pzmu5_v1
Abstract
The everyday production, consumption, distribution, communication and management of food and culinary practices are increasingly influenced and mediated by digital technologies, ranging from digital procurement systems and online shopping, marketing and promotion to digital food activism. This socio-digital realm, and its typical food practices including planning, cooking, and eating, is often marked by mundane, seemingly banal interactions between humans and technologies. Yet, it is precisely these everyday interactions that are crucial to understand food, nutrition and health practices, especially given the growing reach and impact of digital technologies. This position paper proposes the concept of ‘digital foodscapes’ as an analytical and methodological lens to grasp and investigate how everyday spaces, discourses and practices around food, nutrition and health are changing with and through digitalisation. It provides a multi-scalar approach to understanding both micro-level everyday interactions and meso- and macro-level structures. In bringing together highly diverse disciplinary perspectives, this paper also identifies key future research areas around food and digitalisation.
