1st Edition

Digital Food Cultures

Edited By Deborah Lupton, Zeena Feldman Copyright 2020
228 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Understanding Digital Food Cultures

Deborah Lupton

Part I: Bodies and Affects

2. Self-Tracking and Digital Food Cultures: Surveillance and Self-Representation of the Moral ‘Healthy’ Body

Rachael Kent

3. Carnivalesque Food Videos: Excess, Gender and Affect on YouTube

Deborah Lupton

Part II: Healthism and Spirituality

4. You Are What You Instagram: Clean Eating and the Symbolic Representation of Food

Stephanie Alice Baker and Michael James Walsh

5. Healthism and Veganism: Discursive Constructions of Food and Health in an Online Vegan Community Healthism in the Online Vegan Community

Ellen Scott

6. Working at Self and Wellness: A Critical Analysis of Vegan Vlogs

Virginia Braun and Sophie Carruthers

Part III: Expertise and Influencers

7. ‘A Seat at the Table: Amateur Restaurant Review Bloggers and the Gastronomic Field

Morag Kobez

8. I See Your Expertise and Raise You Mine: Social Media Foodscapes and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef

Pia Rowe and Ellen Grady

9. Crazy for Carcass’ Foodie-Waste Femininity, and Digital Whiteness

Maud Perrier and Elaine Swan

Part IV: Spatialities and Politics

10. Are You Local? Digital Inclusion in Participatory Foodscapes

Alana Mann

11. Visioning Food and Community Through the Lens of Social Media

Karen Cross

Part V: Food Futures

12. Connected Eating: Servitising the Human Body through Digital Food Technologies

Suzan Boztepe and Martin Berg

13. From Silicon Valley to Table: Solving Food Problems by Making Food Disappear

Markéta Dolejšová

Biography

Deborah Lupton works across the Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW Sydney, and leads the Vitalities Lab. Her latest authored books are The Quantified Self (2016), Digital Health (Routledge, 2017), Fat, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2018) and Data Selves (2019).

Zeena Feldman is Lecturer in Digital Culture at King’s College London, where she leads the Quitting Social Media Project. Her work examines intersections between online communication, technology and everyday life, and has appeared in Information, Communication & Society, TripleC and OpenDemocracy, and on BBC Radio 3 and 4.