Thinking Globally, Acting Locally, Discussing Online: The Slow Food Movement Quickens with New Media
Date of Award
Spring 5-2012
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Communication
First Advisor
Leonard Teel
Second Advisor
Ted Friedman
Third Advisor
Carrie Freeman
Abstract
Even with its opposition to “fast” and “globalization,” the Slow Food movement has embraced new media and speed to disseminate information to a worldwide audience. The organization’s use of new and social media is the focus of this ethnographic study to examine the online discourse of the movement through the theoretical lens of international political economy of media and globalization theory. Online interviews via social media and supplemental textual analysis of Slow Food-related online discourse reveals themes concerning time, education and community and shows that participation in the dialogic discussion surrounding Slow Food online varies widely across groups and new media platforms.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/2766619
Recommended Citation
Bender, Carolyn, "Thinking Globally, Acting Locally, Discussing Online: The Slow Food Movement Quickens with New Media." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2012.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/2766619