Digital Food Cultures

Deborah Lupton works across the Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW Sydney, and leads the Vitalities Lab. Her latest authored books are The Quantified Self (2016), Digital Health (Routledge, 2017), Fat, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2018) and Data Selves (2019).

This book explores the interrelations between food, technology and knowledge-sharing practices in producing digital food cultures.

1. Understanding Digital Food Cultures Part 1: Bodies and Affects 2. Self-Tracking and Digital Food Cultures: Surveillance and Self-Representation of the Moral 'Healthy' Body 3. Carnivalesque Food Videos: Excess, Gender and Affect on YouTube Part II: Healthism and Spirituality 4. You Are What You Instagram: Clean Eating and the Symbolic Representation of Food 5. Healthism and Veganism: Discursive Constructions of Food and Health in an Online Vegan Community 6. Working at Self and Wellness: A Critical Analysis of Vegan Vlogs Part III: Expertise and Influencers 7. A Seat at the Table: Amateur Restaurant Review Bloggers and the Gastronomic Field 8. I See Your Expertise and Raise You Mine: Social Media Foodscapes and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef 9. 'Crazy for Carcass': Sarah Wilson, Foodie-Waste Femininity and Digital Whiteness Part IV: Spatialities and Politics 10. Are You Local? Digital Inclusion in Participatory Foodscapes 11. Visioning Food and Community Through the Lens of Social Media Part V: Food Futures 12. Connected Eating: Servitising the Human Body through Digital Food Technologies 13. From Silicon Valley to Table: Solving Food Problems by Making Food Disappear