Digital Foodscapes: Past - Present - Future
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.
Authors
- Sofia Rüdiger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4370-8052)
- Melissa Anne Fernandez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3464-4870)
- Paulien Decorte (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8036-831X)
- Samantha L Huey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9774-8642)
- Maren C. Podszun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8222-6131)
- Desheng Han (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6635-9214)
- Katharina Graf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6604-428X)
- Tina Bartelmeß (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2848-584X)
- Stephanie Ruth Partridge (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5390-3922)
- Gudrun Sproesser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4223-2614)
- Tania Lewis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2855-5644)
- Rebecca Evans (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6393-2903)
- Laura Maria König (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3655-8842)
- Thekla Schneider
- L. R. Richardson
- Joachim Allgaier
- Laura M König (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3655-8842)
- Maria Giovanna Onorati
- Martijn Zoet (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4223-2614)
- Zeena Feldman
- Francesca Forno
- Rafi Grosglik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6604-428X)
- Christian Fuentes
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-09-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/pzmu5_v2
- Primary Topic
- Food Industry and Aquatic Biology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00