Feeding the online: perspectives on food, nutrition and the online higher education

Abstract

Food is a complex phenomenon encompassing issues as diverse as agriculture, biology, culture, health, environment, the emotions or the socio-economic field (de Garine, 1979; Douglas, 1979; López García, Mariano, & Medina, 2016; Medina, Aguilar, & Solé-Sedeño, 2014). In contemporary global context, the listed issues seem to be aligned, under an emerging food-and-health paradigm. Thus, within the shifts of the health discourses that have taken part in the building of what is called Food Modernity, nutritional narratives have reached new arenas of expression.