Digital Food Activism is a new edited volume that investigates how digital media technologies are transforming food activism and consumers' engagements with food, eating, and food systems. Bringing together critical food studies, economic anthropology, digital sociology, and science and technology studies, Digital Food Activism offers innovative multi-disciplinary analyses of food activist practices on social media, mobile apps, and hybrid online and offline alternative spaces. With chapters that focus on diverse digital platforms, food-related issues, and geographic locales, this volume reveals how platforms, programmers, and consumers are becoming key mediators of the mandate of food corporations and official governing actors. Digital Food Activism thereby suggests that emerging forms of activism in the digital era hold the potential to reshape the ethics, aesthetics, and patterns of food consumption.
About the Author: Tanja Schneider is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Institute of Sociology (SfS-HSG), University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and a Research Associate, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society and Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, UK.
Karin Eli is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, UK.
Catherine Dolan is a Reader in Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS, University of London, UK.
Stanley Ulijaszek is Professor of Human Ecology and Director of the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, UK.
