#17 (S2) WHAT OUR POSSESSIONS SAY with award-winning marketing professor Russell Belk

What do our possessions say about us? Award-winning marketing professor Russell Belk talks about how our possessions (including our clothing, cars, people, collections, gifts, social media pages,…) become part of our identity –or our extended self. Professor Belk highlights the significance of the sharing economy and de-materialization, cultural differences, and our evolving identities in relation to our possessions.   References & Links Professor Russell Belk * Schulich School at York University – http://schulich.yorku.ca/faculty/russell-w-belk/ * Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_W._Belk * Professor Belk’s scholarly articles – https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=klSyVxYAAAAJ&hl=en * “Possessions & the Extended Self” – http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.588.621&rep=rep1&type=pdf * “The Extended Self in the Digital World” –https://www.msi.org/uploads/files/ATreview13-Belk.pdf * Gift–Giving – https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article-abstract/3/3/155/1792065 * Royal Society of Canada – http://schulich.yorku.ca/news/professor-russell-belk-elected-royal-society-canada/ Papers & Scholars Referenced * Ralph Waldo Emerson on a “True Gift” – https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/303 * William James on Possessions – https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Principles/prin10.htm * Thorstein Veblen on Conspicuous Consumption – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption * Healthy Avatars – https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cpb.2009.0130 * “The Gift of the Maji” story by O. Henry – http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/GifMag.shtml * Nicholas Carr (Atlantic Monthly) – “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” – https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/ * Grant McCracken – clothing as language – https://amzn.to/2LtylZk * Jerry Zaltman (Harvard) – https://www.hbs.edu/Pages/faculty-search.aspx?q=zaltman * John Deighton (Harvard) – https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6446 Talk About Talk * Possessions BLOG – https://talkabouttalk.com/talk-and-learn-about-our-possessions * SOCIAL MEDIA podcast episode – https://talkabouttalk.com/7-social-media-with-volterra-founder-andrew-jenkins/ * FASHION Podcast episode – https://...