Emoji We Lost / GIZMODO

Emoji We Lost / GIZMODO

Written by Paddy Johnson for Gizmodo, Jan. 21, 2020: While emoji objects like the gun may retain their original meaning, changed illustrations of faces do not have this problem. A face gritting teeth is always going to read differently than the toothy smile it evolved...

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100 Women We Love: Class Of 2019

100 Women We Love: Class Of 2019

“From GOMAG, June 30, 2019, by JDG:” Alicia Eler Photo by Paul Andrews Selfie connoisseur Kim Kardashian and writer Alicia Eler have a lot in common. Eler is the author of “The Selfie Generation: How Our Self-Images Are Changing Our Notions of Privacy, Sex, Consent,...

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15 hilarious women you need to follow on Twitter

15 hilarious women you need to follow on Twitter

From Daily Dot, August 4, 2015 by Eve Peyser: "13) Alicia Eler (@AliciaEler) Who: Alicia Eler is a queer writer who edits ART21 magazine, contributes to the Guardian and Hyperallergic, and splits her time between Los Angeles and New York City. Sample line: “Affective...

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Amazing mention in The New Yorker!

Amazing mention in The New Yorker!

I am so honored the the essay “The Teen-Girl Tumblr Aesthetic” that I co-authored for Hyperallergic a few years ago with Kate Durbin is in today's New Yorker! read Haley Mlotek's review of @SoSadToday's new book of poetry, which discusses a similar concept that Durbin...

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Can Women Build a Better Tinder?

Can Women Build a Better Tinder?

From WIRED, November 17, 2015, by Alana Hope Levinson: "Being single in 2015 often means cynically scaling the walls of the internet and praying for a foothold. “Winning Tinder is about mastering the app’s affordances, its game mechanics, the dissociative buffers that...

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Final Destination

Final Destination

From The Awl, August 18, 2017: "Writing in The New Inquiry, Eve Peyser and Alicia Eler liken the Tinder profile to a video game avatar. Bearing your name and modest resemblance, it skulks around a landscape that is addictive, fun, and goal-oriented. Success seems...

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‘Sylvia’ finds new life on a blog

‘Sylvia’ finds new life on a blog

From the Chicago Tribune, November 14, 2010 by Mary Schmich: "I joke with my friends that she's a 71-year-old hipster," says Alicia Eler, the 26-year-old social media consultant who runs Hollander's blog. "She is actually cooler than any 20- or 30-something hipsters I...

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