[Commlist] New book: Food Instagram

We would like to announce a new publication from the University of 
Illinois Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Food Instagram*

Identity, Influence, and Negotiation

*Edited by Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish ***

*https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780252086540/food-instagram/* 
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"Contois and Kish have prepared a veritable smorgasbord of perspectives 
on the all-pervasive and all-important nature of food on visual social 
media in this deliciously engrossing collection. From aperitifs to 
aesthetics, and placemaking to politics, this book has something for 
every reader."*--Tama Leaver, coauthor of **/Instagram: Visual Social 
Media Cultures/***

"Instagram has become much more than a fun medium for selfies, food 
porn, and branding. This volume shows how the digital app and the kind 
of food representations it supports contribute to building identities 
and negotiating social and economic relationships."--*Fabio Parasecoli, 
author of Bite Me: Food in Popular Culture*

Image by image and hashtag by hashtag, Instagram has redefined the ways 
we relate to food. Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish edit contributions 
that explore the massively popular social media platform as a space for 
self-identification, influence, transformation, and resistance. Artists 
and journalists join a wide range of scholars to look at food’s 
connection to Instagram from vantage points as diverse as Hong Kong’s 
camera-centric foodie culture, the platform’s long history with feminist 
eateries, and the photography of Australia’s livestock producers. What 
emerges is a portrait of an arena where people do more than build 
identities and influence. Users negotiate cultural, social, and economic 
practices in a place that, for all its democratic potential, reinforces 
entrenched dynamics of power.

Interdisciplinary in approach and transnational in scope, /Food 
Instagram/ offers general readers and experts alike new perspectives on 
an important social media space and its impact on a fundamental area of 
our lives.

*Emily J. H. Contois*is an assistant professor of media studies at the 
University of Tulsa and the author of /Diners, Dudes & Diets: How Gender 
and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture/.

*Zenia Kish*is an assistant professor of media studies at the University 
of Tulsa.


*University of Illinois Press**| May 2022 | 316pp | 9780252086540 | PB | 
£20.99**

*Price subject to change.

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