Excess as entertainment: Mukbang and the theatrics of eating for an online audience

Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars
15/12/2023 37 min

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Dr Thao Dam explores how food is experienced digitally, through the Korean-originated practice of mukhbang, where people pay to watch others eat inline.

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