Excess as entertainment: Mukbang and the theatrics of eating for an online audience
Dr Thao Dam explores how food is experienced digitally, through the Korean-originated practice of mukhbang, where people pay to watch others eat inline.
Why do we dislike obese people?
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About this Episode
Kerry O'Brien, Senior lecturer, University of Manchester and Monash University, gives a talk for the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminar series.
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