Comparing Food and Vine

(Cyber-m.com, 2015)

Comparing Food and Vine

This weeks lecture was mainly discussing Food Networks, however, many points within the lecture can be interpreted to parallel the concepts compared to Online Social Networking Sites. Kuttainen (2015) discussed many different points with networks which can be applied to online social networking sites. The points Kuttainen (2015) made were such topics pertaining to; 'Food' as a transformer of culture; 'Food' as a a repository of culture; people settling for mainstream culture; 'Language' disappearing before 'food' does; 'Taste' is culturally constructed; 'Food' produces a fictitious sense of authenticity; and 'Food' can be an expression of identity. All of these points can be identified to online social networking sites. 

Vine is one such site to which these issues pertain to social communities of Vine; some people settle for mainstream culture on the communities and these communities are culturally constructed. Atkins and Bowler (2001) state "'Taste', therefore, has both physical and social meanings." This quote of which can be pertained to Vine. Atkins and Bowler (2001) also support Kuttainen's (2015) argument of social groups (or virtual social networking groups) and how they reinforce online identities. Atkins and Bowler (2001, p.274) also elaborate that " generations find assimilation unavoidable, but some (things) survive as a link with the past.

Atkins and Bowler (2001) also discuss in their text that in some instances, the same old situations and matters are commonplace compared to the development of changing occurrences of the 21st Century, namely, Virtual Networking Sites.

References:

Atkins, P. & Bowler, I. (2001). The Origins of Taste. In Food In Society. New York: Oxford University Press 

Cyber-m.com,. (2015). Vine Dos and Don’ts | Cyber-m. Retrieved 19 September 2015, from http://www.cyber-m.com/vine-dos-and-donts/

Kuttainen, V. (2015). Food Networks. Lecture, James Cook University.