DDRIG: Platformization of Urban Food Systems.

该项目调查了平台技术如何改变城市食品系统以及我们与食品的关系。这项研究采用基于科学技术研究、食品研究和城市地理学的跨学科方法，通过揭示人们如何看待食品的未来，平台技术如何重塑食品获取和人们的食品实践，以及平台如何影响粮食不安全，来改善城市食品系统。研究结果将分发给当地粮食系统管理人员、立法人员和规划人员，使他们直接受益，重点是解决粮食不安全问题。研究结果和经验教训也将更普遍地用于联邦食品、健康和保健计划，以及制定食品获取和营养政策的州机构。该项目广泛地问：粮食平台如何影响人们思考和获取粮食的方式，它们如何重组城市粮食系统和个人粮食做法，平台技术如何影响导致饥饿的结构性条件？该项目假设，平台技术生产有争议的食品仓库，以特许连锁零售的方式引导食品流动，改变人们吃什么和什么时候吃，并通过增加低收入地区方便食品的获得来增加粮食不安全。该项目的学术价值集中在平台如何塑造，并在某些情况下加深，社会不平等和粮食不公正。这种新颖的方法扩展了平台与食物、家庭空间和日常社会再生产形式的分析方式。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project investigates how platform technology is changing the urban food system and our relationship to food. Using an interdisciplinary approach based on science and technology studies, food studies, and urban geography, this research will improve the urban food system by revealing how people think about the future of food, how platform technologies are reshaping both food access and people’s food practices, and how platforms affect food insecurity. Results will be distributed to directly benefit local food system administrators, legislators and planners focused on addressing food insecurity. Research findings and lessons will also be of more general use for federal food, health and wellness programs, and for state agencies developing food access and nutrition policy. The project broadly asks: how do food platforms shape the ways people think about and access food, how do they reorganize both the urban food system and individual food practices, and how does platform technology influence the structural conditions that cause hunger? The project hypothesizes that platform technology produces contested food imaginaries, directs the flow of food in ways that privilege chain retail, changes what and when people eat, and increases food insecurity by increasing access to convenience food in low-income areas. The intellectual merit of the project centers on how platforms both shape, and in some cases deepen, social inequality and food injustice. The novel methodology expands how platforms are analyzed in relation to food, domestic spaces and everyday forms of social reproduction. It also develops and tests new research techniques by using platform technology to conduct digital surveys, interviews, media content analyses, geospatial mapping, and ethnographic investigations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.