Becoming an Online Wine Taster: An Ethnographic Study on the Digital Mediation of Taste
- There has been a growing interest in taste research in the HCI and CSCW communities. However, the focus is more on stimulating the senses, while the socio-cultural aspects have received less attention. However, individual taste perception is mediated through social interaction and collective negotiation and is not only dependent on physical stimulation. Therefore, we study the digital mediation of taste by drawing on ethnographic research of four online wine tastings and one self-organized event. Hence, we investigated the materials, associated meanings, competences, procedures, and engagements that shaped the performative character of tasting practices. We illustrate how the tastings are built around the taste-making process and how online contexts differ in providing a more diverse and distributed environment. We then explore the implications of our findings for the further mediation of taste as a social and democratized phenomenon through online interaction.
Document Type: | Article |
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Language: | English |
Author: | Jenny Berkholz, Margarita Esau-Held, Alexander Boden, Gunnar Stevens, Peter Tolmie |
Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | CSCW1 |
Article Number: | 26 |
Number of pages: | 26 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 26 |
ISSN: | 2573-0142 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3579459 |
Publisher: | Association for Computing Machinery |
Date of first publication: | 2023/04/16 |
Copyright: | © 2023 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM. Abstracting with credit is permitted. |
Keywords: | Human–Food Interaction; Practice Theory; Taste; democratization; ethnography; multi-sensory; wine |
Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
Institut für Verbraucherinformatik (IVI) | |
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 005 Computerprogrammierung, Programme, Daten |
Entry in this database: | 2023/05/03 |