Digital Eating - A new series of the UBVO Podcast

Eating, at least in the global North, has become a thoroughly digital matter – deciding what to eat, what food to buy, where to eat out or order in, how to cook, eating while digitally connected with others, watching other people eat online, and more.

Online and off-line food presences merge and intermingle, reshaping food identities, patterns of consumption, food politics, among other things. These four podcasts from the Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, focus on some of these diverse yet connected issues.

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Episode	Description	People
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 online.	Thao Dam
From grassroots to platforms. The reconfiguration of alternative food provisioning in an online world	Dr Francesca Forno, Associate professor at the University of Trento discusses how new, grassroots food movements are using online platforms and how their online platforms are being appropriated by bigger businesses.	Francesca Forno
Curating good choice, digital marketplace platforms and the framing of eating	Dr Jeremy Brice explores how consumer choice is governed, protected, and cared for by firms which operate digital marketplace platforms from the likes of Deliveroo to Amazon Fresh.	Jeremy Brice
Personalised nutrition and dietary behaviour change in an online study across 7 European countries	Dr Anna Macready, associate professor in the School of Agriculture Policy and Development at the University of Reading, takes us through personalised nutrition and asks, ‘is there a right or wrong diet?’	Anna Macready