Digital Foodscapes : Past - Present - Future

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Allgaier, Joachim ; Bartelmeß, Tina ; Decorte, Paulien ; Evans, Rebecca ; Feldman, Zeena ; Fernandez, Melissa ; Forno, Francesca ; Graf, Katharina ; Grosglik, Rafi ; Han, Dai-In Danny ; Huey, Samantha L. ; König, Laura M. ; Leer, Jonatan ; Lewis, Tania ; Munk, Anders Kristian ; Onorati, Maria Giovanna ; Parasecoli, Fabio ; Partridge, Stephanie R. ; Podszun, Maren C. ; Rüdiger, Sofia ; Schneider, Tanja ; Sproesser, Gudrun ; Wirsam, Jan ; Zoet, Martijn:
Digital Foodscapes : Past - Present - Future.
SocArXiv , 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/pzmu5_v1

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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.