Resocializing digital water transformations: Outlining social science perspectives on the digital water journey

Digital water transformation is often written about as though universally desirable and inevitable, capable of addressing the multifaceted socioecological challenges that systems face. However, there not widespread reflection on complexities, tensions unintended consequences digital transformation, its social political dimensions are neglected. This article introduces case studies development, bringing examples technological innovation into dialogue with literature empirical research from across sciences. We examine how Big Data affects our observations in society to shape management, Internet Things becomes involved reproducing unjust politics, platforms entangled varied sociocultural landscape everyday use, opensource technologies provide new possibilities for participatory governance. also reflect regulatory developments possible trajectories resulting public-private sector interactions. A socially politically informed view essential just sustainable gap between industry visions within sciences inhibitive. Thus, analysis presented this provides a novel, pluralistic perspective development outlines what required more inclusive future scholarship, policy practice. categorized under: Human Water