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Culture at Arm's Length: Exploring the Effects of Culture and Thinking Style on Visual Aesthetics and Responses to Consumer Selfies

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Center for Global Studies
Virtual
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Date
Apr 28, 2022   12:00 - 1:00 pm  
Speaker
Olga Shabalina
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E-Mail
tpollack@illinois.edu
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Olga Shabalina, PhD candidate in the College of Media, will present two studies that explore the role of thinking style on consumer selfie visual aesthetics across cultures. She situates selfies within the larger history of self-portraiture and investigates whether cultural predisposition to compose self- images in a specific way reported earlier holds true in the constraining conditions of selfie technology, i.e., in consumer selfies created by analytic U.S. and holistic Chinese and Russian consumers. The research extends discussion in advertising literature reporting inconclusive evidence of the effects of thinking style on ad outcomes and suggests that consideration of culture remains important as technology continues to shape consumers’ media creation and engagement.

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