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    Digital food activism: Values, expertise and modes of action
    (Routledge, 2018-01-15)
    Eli, Karin
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    Schneider, Tanja  
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    Dolan, Catherine
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    Ulijaszek, Stanley
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    Schneider, Tanja  
    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.
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    URL:https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Food-Activism/Schneider-Eli-Dolan-Ulijaszek/p/book/9781138088320
    URI:https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/100832
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    Introduction - Digital food activism: Food transparency one bite/byte at a time?
    (Routledge, 2018-01-18)
    Schneider, Tanja  
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    Eli, Karin
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    Dolan, Catherine
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    Ulijaszek, Stanley
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    Schneider, Tanja  
    This introductory chapter considers food activism within contemporary ‘digital food cultures’. Based on a review of the literature on food activism and digital activism, we introduce the concept of digital food activism, which we have developed to capture diverse forms of digitally mediated practices of food activism, their distinctiveness and their constitutive effects. We situate these practices within the larger multidisciplinary literature on digital devices, platforms and infrastructures, focusing on the affordances of digital platforms; here, our aim is to explore the kinds of interactions these platforms enable and constrain, and what this means for digital food activism. Building on our own research on digital food activism, which focuses on three case studies – a mobile app, a wiki platform, and an online-centric activist organization - we consider digital platforms used for food activism as ‘infrastructures that give rise to ontological experiments’ (Jensen and Morita, 2015) and call attention to how food is ontologically respecified in the entanglements of diverse types of activists and digital platforms. We illustrate this ontological respecification through an analysis of an auto-ethnographic episode that describes the encounter and entanglement between a researcher-consumer, barcode scanner app, supermarket, water bottle, multi-national corporation, Swiss mountain valley, crowd-sourced database, food-centred campaign and blog post. To conclude, we discuss the implications of this ontological respecification for agency, democracy and economy, and elucidate the similarities and differences between ‘traditional’ food activism (Counihan and Siniscalchi, 2014) and digital food activism.
    Type:book section
    URL:https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Food-Activism/Schneider-Eli-Dolan-Ulijaszek/p/book/9781138088320
    URI:https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/100826