Eating together multimodally: Collaborative eating in mukbang, a Korean livestream of eating

Volume: 48, Issue: 2, Pages: 171 - 208
Published: Apr 1, 2019

Abstract
Mukbang is a Korean livestream where a host eats while interacting with viewers. The eater ‘speaks’ to the viewers while eating and the viewers ‘type’ to each other and to the eater through a live chat room. Using interactional sociolinguistics along with insights from conversation analysis (CA) studies, the present study examines how sociable eating is jointly and multimodally achieved in mukbang. Analyzing sixty-seven mukbang clips, I find...


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Title
Eating together multimodally: Collaborative eating in mukbang, a Korean livestream of eating
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Published Date
1 Apr, 2019
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Volume
48
Issue
2
Pages
171 - 208
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