Faculty Fellow Erin Metz McDonnell's (sociology) scholarship on the class and inequality issues related to food porn social media posts is cited in Playboy.
"Unlike explicitly showing off money and other forms of wealth (where it is seen as tacky or déclassé), food is an ‘acceptable’ form of ‘one-upmanship’ to 'display cultural capital and assert power/dominance over someone else (on social media)' says Professor McDonnell.”
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