Mukbang and Disordered Eating: A Netnographic Analysis of Online Eating Broadcasts

被引:44
作者
Strand, Mattias [1 ,2 ]
Gustafsson, Sanna Aila [3 ]
机构
[1] Stockholm Ctr Eating Disorders, Wollmar Yxkullsgatan 27B, S-11850 Stockholm, Sweden
[2] Karolinska Inst, Stockholm Cty Council, Dept Clin Neurosci, Ctr Psychiat Res, S-17177 Stockholm, Sweden
[3] Orebro Univ, Univ Hlth Care Res Ctr, Fac Med & Hlth, S-70182 Orebro, Sweden
关键词
Eating disorders; Disordered eating; Binge eating; Body image; Social media; PARASOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; ANOREXIA; COMMUNITY; WOMEN;
D O I
10.1007/s11013-020-09674-6
中图分类号
Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
030303 ;
摘要
Mukbang is a recent Internet phenomenon in which video recordings of hosts eating large amounts of food are streamed on an online video platform. It originated in South Korea around 2014 and has since become a global trend. The aim of this study was to explore how viewers of mukbang videos relate their audience experiences to symptoms of disordered eating. A qualitative analysis of YouTube comments and Reddit posts on the topic of mukbang and disordered eating was performed, employing a netnographic approach. Two overarching themes were identified: a viewer perspective, by which users discuss mukbang without describing any personal involvement, and a participant perspective, by which users describe their own experiences of affects and behaviors in response to watching mukbang. Several topical categories emerged, describing how watching mukbang can both limit and increase eating, reduce loneliness and guilt, and become self-destructive. For some, mukbang appears to be a constructive tool in increasing food intake, preventing binge eating, or reducing loneliness; for others, it is clearly a destructive force that may motivate restrictive eating or trigger a relapse into loss-of-control eating. Notably, watching mukbang is not necessarily experienced as either helpful or destructive, but instead as simultaneously useful and hurtful.
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