Automated Literacies
Exploring the literacies of everyday automation
Participate
Blog
Promising but never perfect: Food justice, technology and access
Is technology contributing to the normalization of food banking as a solution to food insecurity? Or does it risk reducing meaningful community interactions to transactional online exchanges that limit pathways to more dignified, sustainable solutions?
Food Security: Hidden Realities
This series of infographics illustrates the hidden realities of food bank automation. While they visually represent complex data, they also tell a compelling story of the human impact of food bank automation.
Is Technology Serving Up Food (In)Security?
This blog is part of our ongoing research that seeks to identify ways in which automation is shaping food security and it invites our readers to pay attention to the way technologies are reshaping or not, the issue of food security.
The work of the Automated Literacies project takes place on the traditional territories of the (Tsleil-Waututh), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. We strive to align the values, goals and methods of our project to Indigenous sovereignty and more just ways of living on these lands.
