From home cookery to restaurant going, from farming to food politics, the world of food is being quietly colonised by an array of electronic devices, online content and information and communication technologies. In this chapter, I touch upon just some of the themes and concerns facing food citizens, producers and activists in today's digital era. In offering a broad overview of some of the key issues raised by the digitisation of food politics, the chapter touches on a range of issues related to 'digital food' from the growth of lifestyle and consumer-related forms of participatory politics online and the affordances of online platforms for enabling connected forms of personal consumption, to the enabling role of digital platform technologies in bringing together food communities. The chapter also interrogates what I term the 'antinomies of connectivity', foreground the growing hegemony of corporate food politics in social media spaces and discussing the limits of digital data and so-called informational transparency around food in an era of data monitoring, "big data" and increasing environmental and health problems related to e-waste.
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The rise of ethical consumption in Australia: from the margins to the mainstream