Digital Food TV: The Cultural Place of Food in a Digital Era

This book explores the new theoretical and political questions raised by food TV’s digital transformation.

Bringing together analyses of food media texts and platform infrastructures—from streaming and catch-up TV to YouTube and Facebook food videos—it shows how new textual conventions, algorithmic practices, and market logics have redrawn the boundaries of food TV and altered the cultural place of food, and food media, in a digital era. With case studies of new and rerun television and emer...