Digital food : from paddock to platform

Summary: Tania Lewis offers the first critical account of the impact of digital information, media, and communication technologies on the topic of food. Lewis critically analyzes how our relationship to food consumption, production, and politics is being re-mediated through digitally connected electronic devices, practices and content. By drawing together the world of food and the digital, the book speaks to a number of pressing contemporary themes including the tensions around digital engagement in increasingly commercialized spaces; the changing nature of politics in a social media context; the growing naturalization of digital devices and related practices of data monitoring; and the role and impact of digitization on social relations. At the forefront of critical new research, and written with a student readership in mind, this text is essential for scholars interested in media studies, cultural studies, food studies, and cultural geography.

Record details

ISBN: 1350055107
ISBN: 9781350055100
ISBN: 1350055093
ISBN: 9781350055094
ISBN: 9781350055124
ISBN: 9781350055117
Physical Description: print
xi, 205 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [178]-196)and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

From culinary aesthetics to phatic food: food photography on Instagram and Facebook -- eating and cooking online: cultural economies of video sharing from YouTube to Youku -- From naked chefs to epic bros: the rise of food masculinities online -- Cooking in the cloud: domestic and digital ecologies of meal sharing -- The shopping complex: food, ethical consumption and apptivism -- Doing food politics in a digital era -- Digital food futures: from smart kitchens to culinary commons.