Always more to learn on this topic, so I appreciate this event from @TheNewSchool with perspectives from Twitter friend @nataliapetrzela, as well as @profcarroll, @shannonmattern, @mckenziewark, and Mira Jacob. To start, @nataliapetrzela shares that she uses social media as an academic to work through ideas/projects, amplify others' fab work, and to form connections, the last of which has been key during the pandemic.

{1} Hi Pop Culture & Pedagogy Twitter Conference! I’m Emily Contois, a professor in Media Studies at @utulsa. I’m happy to share with you today “Taking Food Media Public as Pop Culture Pedagogy.” #POPC1 {2} About me: I'm a scholar of U.S. consumer culture & media focusing on food, bodies & health. I hold a PhD & an MA in American Studies from @brownu, an MLA from @GastronomyatBU & an MPH in Public Health Nutrition from @UCBerkeley. #POPC1

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Simona Stano starts us out at Food for Thought thinking through the conference’s symbolic image: as a rubik’s cube, a puzzle to figure out together. This image is also an attempt to conceal food’s materiality (flavor, texture, substances) and meanings under a common “form,” which is impossible given food’s breadth and diversity.