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Description
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?
About the Author
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.