Surviving the Narrative Collapse: Sustainability and Justice in Computing Within Limits
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| author | Guruge, Dave Mann, Samuel Myers, Ruth Bates, Oliver Goldweber, Mikey Williamson, Andy Lasenby, Jon Brooks, Ian |
| author_facet | Guruge, Dave Mann, Samuel Myers, Ruth Bates, Oliver Goldweber, Mikey Williamson, Andy Lasenby, Jon Brooks, Ian |
| contents | Sustainability-driven computing research - encompassing equity, diversity, climate change, and social justice - is increasingly dismissed as woke or even dangerous in many sociopolitical contexts. As misinformation, ideological polarisation, deliberate ignorance and reactionary narratives gain ground, how can sustainability research in computing continue to exist and make an impact? This paper explores these tensions through Fictomorphosis, a creative story retelling method that reframes contested topics through different genres and perspectives. By engaging computing researchers in structured narrative transformations, we investigate how sustainability-oriented computing research is perceived, contested, and can adapt in a post-truth world. |
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| spellingShingle | Surviving the Narrative Collapse: Sustainability and Justice in Computing Within Limits Guruge, Dave Mann, Samuel Myers, Ruth Bates, Oliver Goldweber, Mikey Williamson, Andy Lasenby, Jon Brooks, Ian Computers and Society Sustainability-driven computing research - encompassing equity, diversity, climate change, and social justice - is increasingly dismissed as woke or even dangerous in many sociopolitical contexts. As misinformation, ideological polarisation, deliberate ignorance and reactionary narratives gain ground, how can sustainability research in computing continue to exist and make an impact? This paper explores these tensions through Fictomorphosis, a creative story retelling method that reframes contested topics through different genres and perspectives. By engaging computing researchers in structured narrative transformations, we investigate how sustainability-oriented computing research is perceived, contested, and can adapt in a post-truth world. |
| title | Surviving the Narrative Collapse: Sustainability and Justice in Computing Within Limits |
| topic | Computers and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05992 |