In which subscribing to the food geek email list pays off bigtime. 16 July 2008 9:27 pm
Posted by Tracy in : events, geekery, school , CommentsLook what I found in my inbox! Thanks, handy-dandy subscription to the Association for the Study of Food & Society (ASFS) listserv!
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Foodies on The Web: A Symposium on Food and New Media
(January 30 – 31, 2009
Boston University)
Many have argued that the Internet and the arrival of Web 2.0 (if there is such a thing) have created new forms of web-based community and interpersonal communications. This has extended into the world of food with the rise of popular food blogs, community-based websites such as Chowhound, Yelp and Citysearch, and other forms of information sharing and collaboration (e.g. YouTube, Wikis, TasteBook, and so forth).
The goal of this symposium is to explore how, if at all, these new technologies have changed the way people eat, cook, share recipes, decide where to have dinner, learn about nutrition, or simply think about food?
Topics of interest include, but are by no means limited to, (more…)
