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Food politics in a digital era

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posted on 2024-10-31, 08:51 authored by Tania LewisTania Lewis
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.

Funding

The rise of ethical consumption in Australia: from the margins to the mainstream

Australian Research Council

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History

Start page

185

End page

201

Total pages

17

Outlet

Digital Food Activism

Editors

T. Schneider, K. Eli, C. Dolan and S. Ulijaszek

Publisher

Routledge

Place published

United Kingdom

Language

English

Copyright

© 2018 Editors; Authors

Former Identifier

2006080387

Esploro creation date

2020-06-22

Fedora creation date

2018-09-19