Overview
Offers interdisciplinary perspectives on food, nutrition, mass communication and popular culture
Examines the transnational scientific literature coverage and media representation of food and nutrition
Includes international viewpoints to compare how food and nutrition are presented throughout the world
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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About this book
Placed at the crossroads of diverse disciplines – medical sciences, information and communication science, sociology of food, agricultural sciences – this book focuses on media, food and nutrition. Contributors to this volume come from different countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico and Romania, and consider comparatively their native cultures. The book answers several questions: How are food and nutrition made visible and publicized? What is the role of media in relation to food and nutrition? What are the strategies of discourses surrounding food and nutrition within new public spaces?
Reviews
“The book represents a high-quality, original contribution to the field. It gives new methodological approaches and international perspectives to the study of food and nutrition.” (Valentina Milenkova, South-West University, Bulgaria)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Valentina Marinescu is Professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Bucharest, Romania. Her research focuses on communication and media studies in Eastern Europe, with a special focus on Romania.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Food, Nutrition and the Media
Editors: Valentina Marinescu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46500-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46499-8Published: 04 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46502-5Published: 05 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46500-1Published: 03 August 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 323
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, Media Policy, Science and Technology Studies