Digital food culture, power and everyday life

It’s the power of food: individual differences in food cue responsiveness and snacking in everyday life

BACKGROUND Discretionary eating behaviour ("snacking") is dependent on internal and external cues. Individual differences in the effects of these cues suggest that some people are more or less likely to snack in certain situations than others. Previous research is limited to laboratory-based experiments or survey-based food recall. This study for the first time examines everyday snacking using ...

Aesthetics of Everyday Life

Aesthetics of everyday life is one of the branches of aesthetic knowledge. Until the 20th century, classical aesthetics focused on the subject of visual arts and paid less attention to the formation of fine arts in the context of human and nature’s daily life experience. During the last few decades, a movement emerged that, by avoiding that one-sided art-oriented approach, tried to create a clo...

10 Cultural Studies and the Culture of Everyday Life

I want to start this paper from the premise that both academics in cultural and media studies, and left-wing political theorists and activists have found the everyday culture of the people in capitalist societies particularly difficult to study either empirically or theoretically. In this paper I wish, then, to interweave two lines of theoretical inquiry: one into the culture of everyday life w...

Algorithms and everyday life

Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths is a book written for a general audience about a number of ideas in computer science and how they are applied in practice. Despite the widespread interest in all things related to computers, very few such books have been written, and I know of no others that cover the particular subjects included here. The book gives clear, almost entir...

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