Thesis subject

Digital devices for sustainable consumption

In recent years, many digital tools, apps, and platforms have been developed with the aim of increasing the accessibility and convenience of new, more sustainable consumption practices and lifestyles.

Examples are car-sharing apps and digital platforms for food and energy provisioning. This research builds on theories of social practice to investigate how digital tools and apps can facilitate the emergence and embedding of sustainable practices in the domain of food, energy, or mobility.

About

Sanneke is an environmental sociologist interestedin emerging digital technologies and their implications for the governance ofsustainable production and consumption practices. Thematically, her workfocuses on sustainability transitions in energy and mobility. Theoretically, her work builds on practice theory, digital sociology,  and science and technology studies