Identity and Ideology in Digital Food Discourse

Alla Tovares is Associate Professor of English and Linguistics at Howard University, USA. Cynthia Gordon is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, USA.

Introduction, Cynthia Gordon and Alla Tovares
1. “Vegetables as a Chore”: Constructing and Problematizing a “Picky Eater” Identity Online, Didem I?kizog?lu and Cynthia Gordon
2. The Multidimensionality of Eating in Contemporary Information Society: A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis of Online Audience Reactions to a TV Show About Food, Jana Declercq, Ste´phan Tulkens, and Geert Jacobs
3. Mediatizing the Fashionable Eater in @nytfood #tbt Posts, Gwynne Mapes
4. Constructing Veganism Against the Backdrop of Omnivore Cuisine: The Use of Adjectives and Modifiers in Vegan Food Blogs, Cornelia Gerhardt
5. What if the Customer is Wrong?: Debates About Food on Yelp and TripAdvisor, Camilla Va´squez
6. Mukbang as Your Digital Tablemate: Creating Commensality Online, Hanwool Choe
7. Growing Online: Activist Identities in the “Grow Your Own” English Blogging Community, Nadine Pierce, Isidoropaolo Casteltrione, and Ana Tominc
8. Food, Activism, and Chips Oman on Twitter, Najma Al Zidjaly, Einas Al Moqbali, and Ahad Al Hinai
9. Parmesan and Patriotism on YouTube: Food as Ideology in Today’s Russia, Alla Tovares
Afterword: Food, Language, and Social Media: Past, Present, and Future, Alla Tovares and Cynthia Gordon
Index