Gastronomy as Content in Social Media Facebook: Potentials and challenges

Maizatul Akhmal Ishak; Zainatul Shuhaida Abdull Rahman

doi:10.21834/ebpj.v7iSI8.4247

Authors

Maizatul Akhmal Ishak College of Creative Arts, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Puncak Perdana 40150 Shah Alam Selangor, Malaysia
Zainatul Shuhaida Abdull Rahman College of Creative Arts, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Puncak Perdana 40150 Shah Alam Selangor, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v7iSI8.4247

Keywords:

Facebook, Gastronomy, Content

Abstract

Gastronomy represents food as content through social media, explaining the potential of creating content for creative industries in Malaysia. However, gastronomy as a creative culture has the challenge of sustaining in this digital era. Therefore, this paper attempt to see potential and challenge gastronomy as content besides look feedback based on social media Facebook, by explaining gastronomy as part of creative industries. Qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis were used in this paper, involving one posting on Facebook containing the comment. Results revealed potential and challenge gastronomy content that contributes to the ideas to create content for both creative and food industries.

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