by Alicia | Dec 30, 2014 | News, Online, Press, Selfie Column, Selfie Press
I am quoted in a British newspaper story about selfie culture. Check it out! But most selfies are not taken with celebs. As an American critic called Alicia Eler has written, selfies are: “Where we become our own biggest fans and private paparazzi.” Read...
by Alicia | Aug 9, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Selfie Column, Writing
It’s one thing to take a #museumselfie with a work of art, as if to say, “yes, I was here with this artwork” or “yes, here is my reflection in the surface of this piece.” It’s another thing to make Greco-Roman statues look like they were chiseled specifically for...
by Alicia | Jul 6, 2014 | News, Online, Press, Selfie Press
I’m quoted in Carrie Riehl and Ross Redman’s article “New Media Selfie” for KC Studio Magazine. Check out the web version here: http://kcstudio.org/blog/2014/06/17/selfie/ Print version here: Quotes from me here: “I think there is a clear...
by Alicia | May 30, 2014 | News
June 25, 6pm: Selfie Blogger Alicia Eler in a conversation about Privacy and the selfie It is hard to walk down the street or enter a retail outlet, let alone leave one’s home, without feeling that you are being watched. Yet in an age of constant surveillance,...
by Alicia | May 26, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Selfie Column, Writing
LOS ANGELES — It’s the end of selfies as we know it. Dearest selfie fanatics, this will be my last story for the Hyperallergic selfie column; after one year of chronicling the selfie’s rise to fame, we collectively decided to let this investigation go off into the...