Theorizing commensality discourses: food truck communication and influence in local culture
| dc.contributor.author | Combs, Mitch, author | |
| dc.contributor.author | Aoki, Eric, advisor | |
| dc.contributor.author | Khrebtan-Hörhager, Julia, committee member | |
| dc.contributor.author | Elkins, Evan, committee member | |
| dc.contributor.author | Carolan, Michael, committee member | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-29T10:17:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-29T10:17:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Food trucks offer spaces of commensality where people negotiate cultural identity and senses of place though practices, tastes, and performances communicated through enactments of food sharing. In this dissertation, I theorize commensality as a rhetorical texture of subcultural ideology, a rhetorical texture of resistance to cultural gentrification, and as a digital process of online community building. I use rhetorical criticism and ethnographic methods of participant observation to analyze physical spaces of food truck commensality in Fort Collins, Colorado: The FOCO Food Truck Rally and North College Avenue. Additionally, I conduct a media discourse analysis of the Fort Collins food truck Instagram community. Overall, I argue that commensality operates as a subcultural ideology resistant and reifying of gourmet elitism, a rhetoric of difference resistant to cultural gentrification, and a process digital commensality building community through social mediated branding, networking, and audiencing. | |
| dc.format.medium | born digital | |
| dc.format.medium | doctoral dissertations | |
| dc.identifier | Combs_colostate_0053A_17289.pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10217/235692 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | 2020- | |
| dc.rights | Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright. | |
| dc.subject | ethnography | |
| dc.subject | global | |
| dc.subject | rhetoric | |
| dc.subject | food studies | |
| dc.subject | commensality | |
| dc.subject | local | |
| dc.title | Theorizing commensality discourses: food truck communication and influence in local culture | |
| dc.type | Text | |
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| thesis.degree.discipline | Communication Studies | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Colorado State University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) |
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