Giada Danesi
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Item type:Publication, More of the same? How digital food platforms reinforce prevailing eating interests and practices(2024-09); ; Techno-optimistic framings of the digital food economy purport that digital platforms can contribute to individuals’ dietary behavior change. Against this background, we investigate how people’s understandings of ‘eating well’ and their engagements with digital platforms are entangled. To do so, we conducted the first large-scale explorative survey among adults living in Switzerland on digital eating practices to date (n = 449). The survey examines participants’ understanding of ‘eating well’ and their uptake and use of digital food platforms. Our survey analysis revealed six distinct clusters of how participants conceptualize ‘eating well’. We found that participants in each cluster engage with a different set of apps, blogs and social media platforms with limited overlap between the clusters. Moreover, each cluster's engagement with selected digital food platforms responds to and supports their prevailing eating practices and goals. The 21 follow-up interviews supported the finding of the survey analysis that eaters (per cluster) seek out digital food platforms to have ‘more of the same’. In other words, participants’ use of digital platforms reinforces their existing eating interests and practices, nonetheless, these practices are increasingly digitally mediated. Ultimately, our results lead us to problematize techno-optimistic visions that digital platforms can unilaterally alter eaters’ established diet.Type:journal articleJournal:Journal of Cultural EconomyIssue:Special Issue on Digital EatingScopus© Citations 6 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Living with, beyond and despite of data: The experiences of users and non-users of dietary tracking apps(2021-10-07); This paper draws on an interdisciplinary research project “FoodCoach” aiming to make a research-based contribution to reducing diet-related diseases. The project develops an automated approach for analysing digital purchase data – collected and donated by volunteer users sharing their data collected through Swiss retailers customer loyalty programmes – and makes it available to their individual users in an easily understandable form via a digital app. Computer science and information management scientists, STS researchers and users collaborate in the project dealing with and intervening into the datafication of food consumption and the knowledge produced in the process. Social science research is being carried out to collect the lived experiences of users and the reservations of non-users towards digital nutrition monitoring and intervention. The data are collected through ethnographic methods, such as participant observations of and informal interviews with the various actors involved in the project and go alongs during food purchasing of users and non-users of self-tracking apps. The aim is to observe and discuss their experiences, practices and attitudes towards the collection, circulation and use of their food and health-related personal data. Our contribution will present the ways in which users and non-users choose to engage and to not engage with these data in the light of their needs, possibilities, interests and experiences. In analysing what the data means and what can be done with it by the different actors and from different perspectives, our intention is to unfold and discuss the multiple agencements at play in the ‘human-data assemblages’ (Lupton 2018).Type:conference paper - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Promising future health through dietary tracking apps: An ethnography of digital data-human assemblages(2021-02-15); In the face of growing numbers of people living with chronic diseases, many public efforts are being undertaken to inform and educate ciFzens to take care of their health. Frequently, technological soluFons such as self-tracking apps play a crucial role in supporFng these efforts and raise hopes and promises. Both diet and physical acFvity are at the heart of iniFaFves and projects, both public and private, aiming at reducing the chances of developing cardiovascular diseases, diabetes etc. The self-monitoring of dietary intakes, food consumpFons and steps are at first sight among the simplest acFons to be carried out by ciFzens themselves. Geared towards facilitaFng individual self-regulaFon, dietary tracking offers many promises and many hopes are therefore pinned on them. Drawing from the observaFon and implementaFon of a project that aims at developing a socially acceptable digital receipt-based diet monitoring mobile health applicaFon, we present the ways in which promises of a beLer self are elaborated, performed and embedded in the collaboraFon between several actors. More specifically, we discuss how these collaboraFons contribute in legiFmising these promises and explore potenFal for intervenFon from an STS perspecFve. We wish to do this with the aim of shedding light on the role of science and, more recently, of the involvement of the social and human dimension of technology through the collaboraFons between both the designers and the users, and engineer sciences and social sciences in dealing with the uncertainty and fragility of the outcomes in relaFon to the use itself and the enhancement of health. Beyond human assemblages we also aLend to the digital data- human assemblages (Lupton, 2016) in the project we study.Type:conference paper - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, I shop therefore I am: Donating shopping dta as a steppingstone to rethinking (individual) consumption(2023-09-11); ; ; - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, Living with, beyond, despite of and against food purchasing data: uses and non-uses of dietary tracking apps(2021-10-07); Type:conference contribution