Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book looks what happens when food, the visceral and enlivening matter, goes digital – and particularly what happens when activism surrounding food moves into the digital domain. It focuses on selected websites, mobile phone apps, and social networking platforms that offer digital modes of activist engagement with food. The book suggests that digital food activism is enacted not merely through technologies, foods or 'things', but rather through the relationships between them, as they are mediated and transformed by digital network infrastructures. It shows the multiplicity and experimental nature of digital food activism and call attention to how food is ontologically respecified in the entanglements of diverse types of activists and digital platforms. The book highlights the interweaving of digital platforms with the origins, development and implementation of food activist projects.