Digital food activism: Values, expertise and modes of action
ISBN
9781138088320
Type
book section
Date Issued
2018-01-15
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Editor(s)
Abstract
New information and communication technologies (ICTs) increasingly enable social action and civic organisation, on both local and global scales. Ranging from social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, to mobile apps such as Buycott, and to data sharing wiki platforms and hacktivist projects, the activist landscape is rapidly shifting, collapsing geographic boundaries to form new issue publics and fast, sometimes mercurial, collective action. Within these emerging digital platforms for activism, food-related consumer action is gaining new contours and publics. Focusing on three case studies – a mobile app, a wiki platform, and an online-centric activist organization – we will examine how activist-ICT interactions generate new knowledges and practices in relation to consumer-based food activism. Specifically, we will critically analyse how consumer activists and social entrepreneurs use ICTs to facilitate new or alternative forms of engagement with food, and how ICTs, in turn, shape possibilities for action. Bridging anthropology and science and technology studies, the chapter will develop new understandings of alternative food networks, social movements, activist leadership, and expertise in the digital age.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SHSS - Kulturen, Institutionen, Maerkte (KIM)
Book title
Digital Food Activism
Publisher
Routledge
Publisher place
London
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
251637
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