[Commlist] CFP: Food and Instagram

Emily Contois and I are co-editing a volume on food and Instagram, and 
we invite chapter proposals by April 1. Please share this CFP with 
colleagues who might be interested, and don't hesitate to reach out if 
you have any questions.


  You Are What You Post: Food and Instagram

In the beginning, critics pegged Instagram as the site for 
polaroid-shaped pictures of brunch and babies. Its presumed whiteness, 
feminization, and superficial consumerism have been slow to draw 
sustained scholarly attention compared with Facebook and Twitter, 
despite the fact that by mid-2018, the image-based social media platform 
had topped one billion users worldwide. Now an extensive and 
heterogeneous visual ecosystem, Instagram’s unique relations between 
food and media—and the broader cultural significance of these 
dynamics—warrant critical scrutiny.

How does the “social photography” (Manovich 2014) of Instagram mediate 
ideas about food, eating, health, and nutrition? How does food intersect 
with diverse performances of identity, including celebrity, in the 
digital vernacular of posting photos with significant frequency? 
Considering more than 70% of American businesses are estimated to engage 
with the platform, how does the visual economy of Instagram participate 
in and reshape food and restaurant brand development and marketing? How 
does Instagram’s rapid global expansion reflect and reshape visual 
geographies of food and eating? Exploring these and other questions, 
this volume will bring together food and media studies scholars to cast 
an interdisciplinary lens on what we learn about the cultures and 
economies of food through the Instagram frame.

We seek contributors for focused, lively, and engaging chapters on the 
topic of food and Instagram. The volume will be peer-reviewed and has 
received interest from Bloomsbury Academic, a leading publisher of works 
on food 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/academic/academic-subjects/food/>. The 
press affords a growing list of texts in Food Media and Communication 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/academic/academic-subjects/food/food-media-and-communication/>, 
bolstered by the Bloomsbury Food Library 
<https://www.bloomsburyfoodlibrary.com/home>, which affords space for 
pedagogical components suitable for both undergraduate and graduate 
course adoption.

Potential chapter topics include, but are not limited to:

  * Food porn on and through Instagram
  * Restaurants, food brands, and marketing
  * Taste, reviews, expertise, and criticism
  * Social status, aspiration, and mobility
  * Nutrition, nutritionism, “healthy” eating, and food tracking
  * Digital worlds, data, surveillance, and technology
  * Instagram and the construction of identity and the self
  * Generational considerations and impacts
  * Consumption, diet(ing), and influencers
  * Convergence, transgression, and Instagram aesthetics
  * Globalization, transnationalism, and circulation
  * Instagram, community, and isolation
  * Instagram users and uses in the Global South
  * Representations of farming, agriculture, and food landscapes
  * Activism, resistance, and other potentials of food Instagram
  * Food and online toxicity
  * Instagram and pedagogy

If you are interested in submitting a chapter to this edited volume, 
please send a 300-word abstract and 150-word bio to co-editors, Emily 
Contois (emily-contois [at] utulsa.edu <http://utulsa.edu>) and Zenia 
Kish (zenia-kish [at] utulsa.edu <http://utulsa.edu>), by April 1, 2019. 
Contributors will be notified of preliminary acceptance by May 1, 2019. 
Chapters of 5,000-6,000 words, inclusive of notes and bibliography, will 
be due September 1, 2019. These are firm deadlines, so we ask that 
contributors please plan accordingly.

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact either or 
both of the editors. We genuinely look forward to receiving your proposals.

Shareable CFP link:
https://emilycontois.com/2019/02/18/cfp-food-and-instagram/?fbclid=IwAR0NSXgEiitLkYUoQVBIpjsQoQ00ShZ0dSvVsHYRi9WFpV2JCP3MADzSpn4 


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