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Introduction. Food and digital discourse: constructing identities and ideologies across social media and cultural contexts / Cynthia Gordon and Alla Tovares -- Part I. Negotiating individual identities in online food contexts -- Vegetables as a chore: constructing and problematizing a picky eater identity online / Didem İkizoğlu and Cynthia Gordon -- The multidimensionality of eating in contemporary information society: a corpus-based discourse analysis of online audience reactions to a TV show about food / Jana Declercq, Stéphan Tulkens, and Geert Jacobs -- Mediatizing the fashionable eater in @nytfood #tbt posts / Gwynne Mapes -- Part II. (Re)constructing and (re)imagining existing food-related language, practices, and actions in digital environments -- Constructing veganism against the backdrop of omnivore cuisine: the use of adjectives and modifiers in vegan food blogs / Cornelia Gerhardt -- What if the customer is wrong?: debates about food on Yelp and TripAdvisor / Camilla Vásquez -- Mukbang as your digital tablemate: creating commensality online / Hanwool Choe -- Part III. Using food as a discursive and material resource for online activism and political engagement -- Growing online: activist identities in the grow your own English blogging community / Isidoropaolo Casteltrione, Nadine Pierce, and Ana Tominc -- Food, activism, and Chips Oman on Twitter / Najma Al Zidjaly, Einas Al Moqbali, and Ahed Al Hinai -- Parmesan and patriotism on YouTube: food as ideology in today's Russia / Alla Tovares -- Afterword, Food, language, and social media: past, present, and future/ Alla Tovares and Cynthia Gordon.