[ecrea] E-Politics of Food - International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) 6(3)

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Abstract Announcement for International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) 6(3)



Editor(s)-in-Chief: Yasmin Ibrahim (Queen Mary, University of London,
United Kingdom), Celia Romm Livermore (Wayne State University, USA)

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editorial process./

*GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE*


Special issue on E-Politics of Food from Online Campaigning to the
Aesthetics of Food Porn

Anita Howarth (Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK)

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issue on E-Politics of Food from Online Campaigning to the Aesthetics of
Food Porn
<http://www.igi-global.com/pdf.aspx?tid=132830&ptid=118714&ctid=15&t=Special%20issue%20on%20E-Politics%20of%20Food%20from%20Online%20Campaigning%20to%20the%20Aesthetics%20of%20Food%20Porn>

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*ARTICLE 1*

Food Porn and the Invitation to Gaze: Ephemeral Consumption and the
Digital Spectacle

Yasmin Ibrahim (Queen Mary University of London, London, UK)

In the digital world, notions of intimacy, communion and sharing are
increasingly enacted through new media technologies and social practices
which emerge around them. These technologies with the ability to upload,
download and disseminate content to select audiences or to a wider
public provide opportunities for the creation of new forms of rituals
which authenticate and diarise everyday experiences. Consumption
cultures in many ways celebrate the notion of the exhibit and the
spectacle inviting gaze through everyday objects and rituals. Food as a
vital part of culture, identity, belonging, and meaning making
celebrates both the everyday and the invitation to renew connections
through food as a universal subject of appeal. Food imagery as a form of
transacted materiality online offers familiarity, comfort, co-presence
but above all a common elemental literacy where food transcends cultural
barriers, offering a universal pull towards a commodity which is
ephemeral yet preserved through the click economy. Food is symbolic of
human solidarity, sociality and sharing and equally of difference
creating a spectacle and platform for conversations, conventions,
connections, and vicarious consumption. Food images symbolise connection
at a distance through everyday material culture and practices.

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www.igi-global.com/article/food-porn-and-the-invitation-to-gaze/132832
<http://www.igi-global.com/article/food-porn-and-the-invitation-to-gaze/132832>

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*ARTICLE 2*

Hunger Hurts: The Politicization of an Austerity Food Blog

Anita Howarth (Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK)

Austerity food blogs have become prominent as household food budgets
have become tighter, government finances constrained, and an ideology of
austerity has become dominant. The British version of austerity
privileges reducing government spending by cutting welfare benefits, and
legitimizes this through individual failure explanations of poverty and
stereotypes of benefit claimants. Austerity food blogs, written by those
forced to live hand to mouth, are a hybrid form of digital culture that
merges narratives of lived experience, food practices and political
commentary in ways that challenge the dominant views on poverty. The
popular blog A Girl Called Jack disrupts the austerity hegemony by
breaking the silence that the stigma of poverty imposes on the
impoverished and by personalizing poverty through Jack Monroe's
narratives of her lived experience of it, inviting the reader's pity and
refuting reductionist explanations of the causes of poverty. Monroe also
challenges austerity through practices derived through her personal
knowledge gained during her struggle to survive and eat healthily on
£10-a-week food budget. This combination of narrative and survival
practices written evocatively and eloquently resonate powerfully with
readers; however the response to Monroe's blog highlights a deep
uneasiness in British society over growing levels of poverty, and deep
divisions over who is responsible for addressing it; and more
fundamentally, over identifying and defining the modern poor and modern
poverty.

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www.igi-global.com/article/hunger-hurts/132833
<http://www.igi-global.com/article/hunger-hurts/132833>

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*ARTICLE 3*

Politicization of the Low-Carb High-Fat Diet in Sweden, Promoted On
Social Media by Non-Conventional Experts

Christopher Holmberg (University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden)

The low-carb high fat (LCHF) diet, a buzz diet in Sweden, is stirring
dogmatic conflict between dieters and representatives from the National
Food Agency (NFA), even gaining international reputation. After
gathering materials from social media and press reports covering the
popular diet, a thematic analysis has been conducted. The aim of this
study was to investigate how three non-conventional experts and
influential promoters of the LCHF movement transact their criticisms of
current nutrition authorities, and how they utilize social media for
their purpose. The diet has been highly politicized, creating distrust
against the established scientific community. Findings indicate that
events on the national level led to an increased public awareness of the
LCHF diet, providing the supporters with invaluable opportunities to
criticize the established nutritional community. This enabled certain
prominent advocates of the diet to gain momentum while using features of
social media to further the diet's believability.

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www.igi-global.com/article/politicization-of-the-low-carb-high-fat-diet-in-sweden-promoted-on-social-media-by-non-conventional-experts/132834 

<http://www.igi-global.com/article/politicization-of-the-low-carb-high-fat-diet-in-sweden-promoted-on-social-media-by-non-conventional-experts/132834>

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*ARTICLE 4*

Fish Fight: Transmedia Storytelling Strategies for Food Policy Change

Renira Rampazzo Gambarato (National Research University Higher School of
Economics, Moscow, Russia), Sergei Andreevich Medvedev (National
Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)

The 2010–2013 Fish Fight campaign, produced by Channel 4 in the United
Kingdom and hosted by chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, is a transmedia
experience designed to (1) draw the public's attention to the reckless
discarding of caught fish because of the quota system intended to
conserve fish stocks in the domain of the European Union; and to (2)
pressure the authorities to change the European Common Fisheries Policy.
The article analyzes the transmedia strategies of the Fish Fight
campaign in order to demonstrate how the multiplatform media production
contributed to (1) make the public aware of the wasteful discarding of
healthy fish at sea under the European fishing quotas; and (2) to amend
the European Union's fishing policies. The research findings point to
the effective role of transmedia storytelling strategies in raising
awareness in the political sphere through public participation in
supporting relevant issues, influencing policy change.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/article/fish-fight/132835
<http://www.igi-global.com/article/fish-fight/132835>

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www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=132835
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