Digital Food Activism

This book explores the role of digital media technologies in creating new forms of consumer activism and engagement with food, eating and food systems using a multidisciplinary approach.

Format: Hardback
Length: 234 pages
Publication date: 09 January 2018
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Digital Food Activism is a groundbreaking new edited volume that delves into the profound ways in which digital media technologies are reshaping food activism and consumer engagements with food, eating, and food systems. By bringing together critical food studies, economic anthropology, digital sociology, and science and technology studies, this volume offers innovative multi-disciplinary analyses of food activist practices on social media, mobile apps, and hybrid online and offline alternative spaces. Spanning diverse digital platforms, food-related issues, and geographic locales, the chapters in this volume shed light on how platforms, programmers, and consumers are emerging as crucial intermediaries in the mandate of food corporations and official governing actors.

Through its comprehensive exploration, Digital Food Activism suggests that emerging forms of activism in the digital era possess the remarkable potential to redefine the ethics, aesthetics, and patterns of food consumption. By leveraging the power of digital media, activists are able to reach wider audiences, mobilize communities, and challenge dominant narratives about food production, distribution, and consumption. This book serves as a valuable resource for scholars, activists, policymakers, and anyone interested in understanding the evolving landscape of food activism and its implications for our collective future.

Weight: 510g
Dimension: 163 x 241 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138088320