Pepin Series Webinar: Food Instagram: Identity, Influence and Negotiation

Fri Sep 23 2022 at 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm

Gastronomy Program | Boston

Gastronomy Program, Boston University
Publisher/HostGastronomy Program, Boston University
Pepin Series Webinar: Food Instagram: Identity, Influence and Negotiation
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Fall 2022 Pépin Lecture Series in Food Studies & Gastronomy, with Emily Contois and Zenia Kish
About this Event

Zoom Webinar: participants will be sent link one day prior to the lecture.

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 Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Tulsa.

Zenia Kish is Assistant Professor Media Studies, University of Tulsa


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Gastronomy Program, 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, United States

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