Seminar - December 2020

Lifestyles 4:0: Thinking About the Politics of Everyday Life Through Food and the Digital

Professor Tania Lewis, Deputy Dean of Research, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University

For the Food Values Research Group's December 2020 seminar, we are pleased to welcome Prof Tania Lewis.

How we live our daily lives is increasingly entangled in the politics and ethics of food, from sourcing to sharing, while our growing habituation to connected technological devices and practices is embedded in a broader, albeit not necessarily visible, digital politics. In this talk, Tania Lewis discusses her recent book Digital Food: From Paddock to Platform (Bloomsbury, UK: 2020), a book that uses the realm of food as a way of grounding and materializing our growing daily engagements with digital media. Offering a broad brush stroke overview of the rise of a digital culinary cultural economy, it covers a wide range of content from food influencers on YouTube and Instagram through to corporate domination of digital food space and activist efforts to counter this commercial influence.

When: Friday 4th December, 11-12 PM

Where: Online. Please RSVP to foodresearch@adelaide.edu.au

Prof Tania Lewis is Deputy Dean of Research in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. She is a media and cultural studies scholar with a wide range of empirical research experience and expertise. Her research interests include: food cultures, food and media and digital and media methods.