https://fixingsocialmedia.mit.edu/2020/03/30/case-study-comparative-observations-of-online-spaces-for-cooking/ MAS S.67 // Spring 2020 Tue, 19 May 2020 20:52:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://fixingsocialmedia.mit.edu/2020/03/30/case-study-comparative-observations-of-online-spaces-for-cooking/#comment-22 Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:35:26 +0000 https://fixingsocialmedia.mit.edu/?p=616#comment-22 This is a really excellent piece of work. You’ve identified two case studies that share a common purpose and a moment in time – cooking during COVID – and done an excellent job of identifying the ways a platform designed for one sort of conversation supports other kinds of conversation. I’m curious as to whether there’s more to learn in this case study from contrast. Did you find significant differences between the NYT and Xiachufang? Does the fact that NYTimes is a closed (and pricey!) community lead to different dynamics than more open communities? I’ll also be interested to see whether these communities transform at al after we are no longer distancing – is this a moment in time or a deeper dynamic made possible by cooking as a deeply emotional practice? Great work.

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