Food and Social Media (eBook)

You Are What You Tweet

Signe Rousseau (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
136 Seiten
Altamira Press (Verlag)
978-0-7591-2044-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Social media has been a factor in the explosion of interest in food and democratization of food criticism, and this book explains and critique the phenomena and key issues in a lively and anecdotal manner that will appeal to scholars and the interested general public alike.

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Social media platforms have quickly become integral to most people's lives, both privately and professionally. This is the first book to illuminate the trend of relying on social media in the food world. Engaging in social media is fun, but it is also rapidly becoming the platform for self-promotion and branding. This entertaining narrative offers an historical account of the major changes brought about by the Internet and also explores the polarities that underlie the challenges of adaptation, including exclusivity versus democracy, professionalism versus amateurism, and business versus pleasure. Loaded with insight into the current scene, it discusses controversies such as celebrity chefs' tweeting wars, ethics and the accusations of plagiarizing of recipes, and etiquette concerning the practice of photographing a meal to blog about it. Food and Social Media will appeal to anyone with an interest in food and media as well as those who enjoy using any of the social media formats, including blogs, Yelp, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and more, to participate in a digital food community.

Autor

Signe Rousseau teaches at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and is the author of Food Media: Celebrity Chefs and the Politics of Everyday Interference (2012).

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Sweet but Sticky Web Chapter 1: Food for Sharing Chapter 2: Food Not for Sharing Chapter 3: Twitter Feeding: Too Much of a Good Thing? Chapter 4: Everyone Is a Critic (but Who Is This “Everyone”?) Chapter 5: The Business of Pleasure Conclusion: (How) Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think About Food? Notes Bibliography About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.6.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: AltaMira Food Studies Series • AltaMira Studies in Food and Gastronomy • chefs and food • chefs and social media • Culinary Arts • ethics in blogging • ethics in food • food and gastronomy • food and laws • health and social media • online ethics • Recipes • Sweets • The Internet • the web • Twitter • Virtual Reality
• ISBN-10: 0-7591-2044-7 / 0759120447
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-2044-0 / 9780759120440