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Eat, cook, grow : mixing human-computer interactions with human-food interactions / Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Marcus Foth, and Greg Hearn.

By: Choi, Jaz Hee-jeong, 1980- [author.].
Contributor(s): Hearn, Greg, 1957- [author.] | Foth, Marcus [author.] | IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : MIT Press, 2014Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2014]Description: 1 PDF (x, 303 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262322348.Subject(s): Food -- Social aspects | Online social networks | Agriculture | Dinners and diningGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification: 641.5/4 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.Summary: "Our contemporary concerns about food range from food security to agricultural sustainability to getting dinner on the table for family and friends. This book investigates food issues as they intersect with participatory Internet culture--blogs, wikis, online photo- and video-sharing platforms, and social networks--in efforts to bring about a healthy, socially inclusive, and sustainable food future. Focusing on our urban environments provisioned with digital and network capacities, and drawing on such "bottom-up" sociotechnical trends as DIY and open source, the chapters describe engagements with food and technology that engender (re-)creative interactions." -- Unedited summary from book.
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"Our contemporary concerns about food range from food security to agricultural sustainability to getting dinner on the table for family and friends. This book investigates food issues as they intersect with participatory Internet culture--blogs, wikis, online photo- and video-sharing platforms, and social networks--in efforts to bring about a healthy, socially inclusive, and sustainable food future. Focusing on our urban environments provisioned with digital and network capacities, and drawing on such "bottom-up" sociotechnical trends as DIY and open source, the chapters describe engagements with food and technology that engender (re-)creative interactions." -- Unedited summary from book.

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