ABSTRACT

Digital Food Activism is a new edited volume that investigates how digital media technologies are transforming food activism and consumers' engagements with food, eating, and food systems. Bringing together critical food studies, economic anthropology, digital sociology, and science and technology studies, Digital Food Activism offers innovative multi-disciplinary analyses of food activist practices on social media, mobile apps, and hybrid online and offline alternative spaces. With chapters that focus on diverse digital platforms, food-related issues, and geographic locales, this volume reveals how platforms, programmers, and consumers are becoming key mediators of the mandate of food corporations and official governing actors. Digital Food Activism thereby suggests that emerging forms of activism in the digital era hold the potential to reshape the ethics, aesthetics, and patterns of food consumption.


chapter 1|24 pages

Introduction

Digital food activism – food transparency one byte/bite at a time?

chapter 2|18 pages

Hacking the food system

Re-making technologies of food justice

chapter 3|27 pages

Diabetes on Twitter

Influence, activism and what we can learn from all the food jokes

chapter 4|19 pages

Digital connections

Coffee, agency, and unequal platforms

chapter 5|21 pages

Political consumers as digital food activists?

The role of food in the digitalization of political consumption

chapter 6|20 pages

Marketing critical consumption

Cultivating conscious consumers or nurturing an alternative food network on Facebook? 1

chapter 7|21 pages

Displacement, ‘failure’ and friction

Tactical interventions in the communication ecologies of anti-capitalist food activism

chapter 8|17 pages

‘Both fascinating and disturbing’

Consumer responses to 3D food printing and implications for food activism

chapter 10|18 pages

Food politics in a digital era

chapter 11|17 pages

Digital food activism

Values, expertise and modes of action

chapter |8 pages

Afterword

The public’s two bodies – food activism in digital media