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

Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars by Oxford University

Dec 15, 202337:22Science & Medicine

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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Excess as entertainment: Mukbang and the theatrics of eating for an online audience is an episode from Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars by Oxford University. Dr Thao Dam explores how food is experienced digitally,...

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Published Dec 15, 2023, 37:22 long, audio available.