1st Edition

Digital Food TV The Cultural Place of Food in a Digital Era

By Michelle Phillipov Copyright 2022
124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the new theoretical and political questions raised by food TV’s digital transformation. Bringing together analyses of food media texts and platform infrastructures—from streaming and catch-up TV to YouTube and Facebook food videos—it shows how new textual conventions, algorithmic practices, and market logics have redrawn the boundaries of food TV and altered the cultural... Read more

Introduction: Digital platforms and televisual food 1. Re-reading televisual flow: The politics of reruns on catch-up TV. 2. Streaming reality: Neoliberal subjectivities and aspirational labour, and Netflix food programming 3. Affect switches: Affective capture and market logics in online food videos 4. Technologies of intimacy: Reimagining broadcast food TV in the pandemic 5. Conclusion: Television and the politics of digital food

Biography

Michelle Phillipov is a Senior Lecturer in Media at the University of Adelaide. Her research explores the role of food media in shaping public debate, media and food industry practices, and consumer politics. She is an author or editor of five books, including Media and Food Industries: The New Politics of Food, Alternative Food Politics: From the Margins to the Mainstream (with Katherine Kirkwood), and Fats: A Global History.