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Mukbang, Food Performance, and Digital Media - Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam, Stanley Ulijaszek

Mukbang, Food Performance, and Digital Media

Buch | Hardcover
228 Seiten
2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-60023-9 (ISBN)
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This timely and innovative book examines the roots, diverse forms, and international spread of mukbang, the phenomenon of digital eating which began in South Korea in 2008.

In mukbang, creators known as ‘broadcast jockeys’ (or mukbangers) consume a variety of foods, often in huge quantities, for an online audience. Through an analysis of the practice of mukbang, this book critically explores how the ever-growing use and integration of digital technologies is shaping understandings, experiences, and engagements with food. It outlines the pursuit of meaning and meaning making during broadcasted mealtimes, bite after bite. The book takes the dual lens of anthropology and performance to make sense of mukbang, its evolutions, and its ongoing transformations. To give equal emphasis to all aspects of the practice during its examination, the book uses performance categories to frame its analysis. There are lights, cameras, and endless spectacular consumption. The diversity of mukbang is brought together and elaborated upon; a robust showtime menu of noisy ASMR, colour-coded meal spreads, competitive eating, and more, await.

This significant and cohesive volume will be of pivotal interest to students, scholars, and academics of media studies, food studies, tourism, marketing, food and beverage management, public health, as well as those involved in the practice of mukbang, whether as a performer or viewer.

Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam is a Visiting Scholar in Anthropology at Portland State University. They are a medical anthropologist, ethnobotanist, and food writer. Their research interests lie at the intersections and overlaps of food and nutrition, global health, biocultural diversity, and media studies. Stanley Ulijaszek is Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology at the University of Oxford. He is a nutritional anthropologist whose research encompasses the anthropology of food and eating, biocultural approaches to obesity, and the evolutionary basis for, and cultural diversity in, nutritional health.

'1. Overture. 2. The Stage. 3. The Scene. 4. The Sets and Props. 5. The Music and Sound. 6. The Performance. 7. The Audience. 8. The Show. 9. The Finale. End matter.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 13.5.2026
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies of Gastronomy, Food and Drink
Zusatzinfo 1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Wirtschaft
ISBN-10 1-032-60023-3 / 1032600233
ISBN-13 978-1-032-60023-9 / 9781032600239
Zustand Neuware
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