The True Selfie: Beauty, Authenticity, and Instagram | Torrance Festival of Ideas

Rosanna Smith

Is makeup a mask or art? Your answer may depend on how you define the true self. I use both social media data and experiments to examine why people often judge others as inauthentic for engaging in beauty work and explore how we can eliminate this stigma.

Rosanna Smith is an assistant professor of marketing in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. She enjoys analyzing TV shows and playing ultimate frisbee.

Start: 24 April 2021

End: 24 April 2021