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You Are What Your Food Influencer Is Eating

Find out why video consumers are hungry for mukbang!

Journalism and Media Studies professors Linda Dam and Benjamin Burroughs during a mukbang. The pair, along with Anne Marie Basaran Borsai of University of Connecticut, published an article that examines how parasocial interaction with a mukbang social media influencer impacts advertising effectiveness and information credibility. (Becca Schwartz/UNLV)

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