Digital Food Talk

Food Reps Talk about the Changes

Got a beef with servery food? A formalization of the college food representative job description aims to make students ' requests, comments and complaints regarding the serveries more easily heard, as well as help new students deal with their personal dietary restrictions. The revisions, drafted by Nutrition & Body Image Specialist Maria Tsakalis, will standardize the food rep position across t...

Talk failures: food and fair trade.

Food Understanding from Digital Images

There is a general consensus on the fact that people love food. Due to the great diffusion of low cost image acquisition devices (e.g., smartphones and wearable cameras), the food is nowadays one of the most photographed objects. The number of food images on the web is increasing and novel social networks for food lovers (e.g., foodspotting) are more and more popular. The automatic analysis and...

Reclaiming conversation: The power of talk in a digital age

The Digital Privacy Paradox: Small Money, Small Costs, Small Talk

This paper uses data from the MIT digital currency experiment to shed light on consumer behavior regarding commercial, public and government surveillance. The setting allows us to explore the apparent contradiction that many cryptocurrencies offer people the chance to escape government surveillance, but do so by making transactions themselves public on a distributed ledger (a ‘blockchain’). We ...