Food Bloggers: Identity and Inequality Through Eat Practices and Representations in Social Media

Student: Makarenko Yulia

Supervisor: Dmitry Popov

Educational Programme: Sociology of Public Sphere and Social Communications (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2016

The work is devoted to the sociological study of eat practices and their representations in social networks. The thesis deals with theoretical approaches to the study of the cultural specificity of food practices as well as the results of a comprehensive study of the Russian culinary bloggers – creators of blogs and participants in online gastronomic communities. The study included a preliminary analysis of the audience of culinary resources, genre analysis of the content of several popular Internet sites and in-depth interviews with food bloggers. The study defined the features of socio-cultural portrait of food bloggers community and identified markers of inequality that are typical for this group.

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