ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how what we call the ‘food hospitality activism’ of the Welcome Dinner Project (WDP) is made visible through its online media practices, and how these meanings change in racist ways through the re-mediation of WDP images via mainstream news and entertainment media. It focuses on photographs of food commensality drawn from the online presence of the WDP, and considers how the meanings of the WDP shift as the visual and verbal texts are re-mediated elsewhere. The chapter also focuses on the digital photographs and accompanying verbal texts associated with home events. It examines how the WDP’s representation of hospitality activism change visually, racially and politically through re-mediation by different media outlets. The chapter analyses a sample of digital photographs and verbal texts from the WDP’s online media, and from its curated online food and news media coverage.
