[ecrea] New Book Announcement: Food as Communication/Communication as Food

> Dear Colleagues:
>
> Just wanted to let you know that our new edited volume on food and 
> communication will be released by Peter Lang on February 1:
>
> Janet M. Cramer, Carlnita P. Greene, and Lynn M. Walters (Eds). Food 
> as Communication/Communication as Food
>
> Here's a brief blurb of the book:
>
> >From high-tech kitchen gadgets and magazines to the Food Network, 
> the last few decades have seen a huge rise in food-focused 
> consumption, media, and culture. The discourses surrounding food 
> range from media coverage of school lunchrooms and hunger issues, 
> to news stories about urban gardening or buying organic products at 
> the local farmers market. Food is no longer viewed merely as a 
> means of survival.
>
> International and comprehensive in approach, this volume is the 
> first book-length study of food from a communication perspective. 
> Scholars examine and explore this emerging field to provide 
> definitive and foundational examples of how food operates as a 
> system of communication, and how communication theory and practices 
> can be understood by considering food in this way. In doing so, the 
> book serves to inspire future dialogues on the subject due to its 
> vast array of ideas about food and its relationship to our 
> communication practices.
>
>
> So, for anyone interested in the study of food and/or communication, 
> check it out!
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Food-Communication-Lynn-M-Walters/dp/143310962X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1296329349&sr=1-1-spell 
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Carlnita
>
> Apologies for cross-postings.
>
> --
> Dr. Carlnita P. Greene
> Assistant Professor and Director
> Communication & Rhetoric Program
> Department of English
> Nazareth College
> Office: Golisano Academic Center 491
> Phone: (585) 389-2440
> E-Mail: (cgreene4 /at/ naz.edu)

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