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Surviving the Narrative Collapse: Sustainability and Justice in Computing Within Limits

Published: August 8, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2508.05992v2

By: Dave Guruge , Samuel Mann , Ruth Myers and more

Potential Business Impact:

Helps science stories fight fake news.

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.

Country of Origin
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Page Count
11 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Computers and Society