Title of Presentation
Food consumption practices on social media and social status.
Moderator
Aimee Meader, Winthrop University
Panel Title
Food, Culture, and Media Studies
Start Date
22-2-2019 3:25 PM
Location
Withers 113
Session Number
Session V
Description
Data from 20 in-depth interviews, including photo elicitations, with undergraduate students, are underway in order to understand how food consumption practices on social media are used to reflect and reinforce social status, cultural knowledge, and class signals. Initial results from the interviews and analysis of photo elicitations will be presented and future areas of study will be discussed.
Keywords
social media, food consumption, social status, class signals, in-depth interviews.
Food consumption practices on social media and social status.
Withers 113
Data from 20 in-depth interviews, including photo elicitations, with undergraduate students, are underway in order to understand how food consumption practices on social media are used to reflect and reinforce social status, cultural knowledge, and class signals. Initial results from the interviews and analysis of photo elicitations will be presented and future areas of study will be discussed.
Your Title/College/Department/Program
Graduate Student, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte