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- Title
Nachhaltige Digitalisierung. Gesellschaftliche Transformation, autonome Materialität und der Fall des Digital Farming.
- Authors
Henkel, Anna
- Abstract
Sustainability and digitalization are two trends in social change that point in different directions. Sustainability is seen as change that is aspired to but remains inadequate in its outcome, while digitalization – desirable or not – simply occurs. Investigating this discrepancy presents a challenge for sociological theory, too. While sustainability and digitalization have usually been considered independently of each other, an expanded theory of society including a concept of materiality allows both for thinking together these two dynamics of social change as well as for explaining their differences: digitalization is already inherent in the specific, i.e. autonomous materiality of modern society, while sustainable development requires a transformation of this materiality itself. To elaborate this thesis, the article includes a case study of digital farming. The article concludes with reflections on the challenges, conditions and opportunities for sustainable digitalization.
- Subjects
SOCIAL theory; SOCIAL dynamics; SUSTAINABLE development; AGRICULTURE; MODERN society; SELF-discrepancy
- Publication
Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 2023, Vol 33, Issue 3, p289
- ISSN
0863-1808
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11609-023-00500-5