Digital food cultures
Deborah Lupton (Editor), Zeena Feldman (Editor)
"This book explores the interrelations between food, technology and knowledge-sharing practices in producing digital food cultures. Digital Food Cultures adopts an innovative approach to examine representations and practices related to food across a variety of digital media: blogs and vlogs (video blogs), Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, technology developers' promotional media, online discussion forums, and self-tracking apps and devices. The book emphasises the diversity of food cultures available on the internet and other digital media, from those celebrating unrestrained indulgence in food to those advocating very specialised diets requiring intense commitment and focus. While most of the digital media and devices discussed in the book are available and used by people across the world, the authors offer valuable insights into how these global technologies are incorporated into everyday lives in very specific geographical contexts. This book offers a novel contribution to the rapidly emerging area of digital food studies and provides a framework for understanding contemporary practices related to food production and consumption internationally"-- Provided by publisher
Cross-cultural studies
1 online resource (xi, 216 pages) : illustrations
9780429402135, 9780429688065, 9780429688041, 9780429688058, 0429402139, 0429688059, 0429688067, 0429688040
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Print version:
Understanding digital food cultures
Part 1. Bodies and affects. Self-tracking and digital food cultures : surveillance and self-representation of the moral 'healthy' body
Carnivalesque food videos : excess, gender and affect on YouTube
Part 2. Healthism and spirituality. You are what you Instagram : clean eating and the symbolic representation of food
Healthism and veganism : discursive constructions of food and health in an online vegan community
Working at self and wellness : a critical analysis of vegan vlogs
Part 3. Expertise and influencers. 'A seat at the table : amateur restaurant review bloggers and the gastronomic field
I see your expertise and raise you mine : social media foodscapes and the rise of the celebrity chef
'Crazy for carcass' : Sarah Wilson, foodie-waste femininity, and digital whiteness
Part 4. Spatialities and politics. Are you local? Digital inclusion in participatory foodscapes
Visioning food and community through the lens of social media
Part 5. Food futures. Connected eating : servitising the human body through digital food technologies
From Silicon Valley to table : solving food problems by making food disappear