Digital technologies have transformed our approach to food and agriculture, promising to revolutionize global food production while minimizing environmental impact. Angga Dwiartama, M.Si., Ph.D., and his team propose a model of digitalization based on assemblage theory, comprising three dimensions: project-based digitalization, everyday digitalization, and reflexive digitalization. These dimensions represent various relationships between practices, representations, and modes of agency, offering insights into human and non-human engagement with digitalization. Anchored in assemblage theory, this model provides a critical tool for understanding the complexity of digitalization as a sociotechnical process. Applying this framework to ethnographic studies in Switzerland and Indonesia reveals common challenges in the co-construction of digitalization within society.

Article Citation:
Forney, J., Dwiartama, A. (2023). The project, the everyday, and reflexivity in sociotechnical agri-food assemblages: proposing a conceptual model of digitalisation. Agriculture and Human Values, 40, 441-454. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-022-10385-4.