How To Build An Authentic, Relatable Brand On Social Media / FORBES
My book The Selfie Generation is mentioned in this article on Forbes.com by Sam Mehrbod: The Face Behind The Brand Let me break it to you, we are all self-conscious about how we look or how we sound on camera. After all, what we see in the mirror every day is the...
The Original Selfie Craze Was the Mirror / Smithsonian Magazine + BoingBoing.net
In one sense, our smartphones, with all these selfies, are now our pocket mirrors, inspiring the same self-conscious anxieties that mirrors provoked. Yet taking a selfie is also different from peering into a mirror: The mirror is mostly private, but every time...
Men are embracing selfies: good news, depending on your angle
From Sydney Morning Herald, Jan. 25, 2019. The glorious selfie is losing its female gaze. For years, we thought about the selfie as the work of women about women. That’s partly why it got bad press – girlie, narcissistic, banal. Look around you and you will see men...
‘Selfie Generation’ gives new meaning to those (not so) innocent photos we take of ourselves
From the Chicago Tribune, May 22, 2018, by Rick Kogan: Alicia Eler (in a selfie) is the author of "The Selfie Generation: How Our Self Images Are Changing Our Notions of Privacy, Sex, Consent, and Culture." (Alicia Eler photo) You are beautiful, aren’t you? Of course...
3 Books to Help You Understand Millennials and Beyond
From the New York Times Book Review, February 14, 2018, by Jack Dickey: THE SELFIE GENERATION How Our Self Images Are Changing Our Notions of Privacy, Sex, Consent, and Culture By Alicia Eler 294 pp. Skyhorse. $24.99. The social internet has been gripped in recent...
Why selfies can be a force for social good
From BBC, January 15, 2018, by Devon Van Houten Maldonado: A new book suggests they empower the marginalised at a time when visibility equates political power. Is that true? Devon Van Houten Maldonado takes a look. The word ‘selfie’ may bring to mind an adolescent...
Our Selfies, Ourselves
From WIRED, November 2017:
Do you take selfies in public?
From The Verge's podcast "Why'd You Push That Button?" by Kaitlyn Tiffany on March 20, 2018: And why do you care if someone else does? By Kaitlyn Tiffany Mar 20, 2018, 9:01am EDT Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Do you take selfies? Do you take them in...
Strong Opinions Loosely Held with Alicia Eler, author of ‘The Selfie Generation’
From Refinery29, March 29, 2018, by Elisa Kreisinger: Strong Opinions Loosely Held was live. March 29 at 12:09pm · Elisa Kreisinger/Pop Culture Pirate talks to Alicia Eler, author of Selfie Generation, about the power of selfies and offers a comeback to all those who...
Let Me Take a Selfie: Possibility, Performativity, and Politics in Alicia Eler’s “The Selfie Generation”
From the LA Review of Books, January 26, 2018, by Hollis Griffin: THERE’S A PASSAGE in Alicia Eler’s new book, The Selfie Generation: How Our Self Images are Changing Our Notions of Privacy, Sex, Consent, and Culture, in which she discusses sexting with someone as she...
Chicago author stands up for selfies in new book
From WGN TV Chicago, January 18, 2018, by Marisso Musso: CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO Author and Chicago native Alicia Eler discusses the power of selfies for millennials in her new book "The Selfie Generation," which hit shelves in November 2017. ...
What we learn from the curious case of the monkey selfie
From the Chicago Tribune, January 26, 2018, by Rick Kogan: Smile? David Slater published this photo of the monkey who became known as Naruto in “Wildlife Personalities.” (David Slater photo) We had been talking about the ever intriguing goings-on at the White House,...
After Hours with Rick Kogan Episode 200: Chicago Party Aunt, Dick Simpson & Alicia Eler
From WGN Radio 720 Chicago, February 12, 2018, by Rick Kogan: RIck hits episode 200 of After Hours! Rick celebrates episode 200 of After Hours by first talking to Dick Simpson about his new book “The Good Fight: Life Lessons from a Chicago Progressive,” where he...
The Selfie Generation is now available in the U.K.!!!
Check it out:::::: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Selfie-Generation-Self-Images-Changing-Notions/dp/1510722645/
The real reason men hate women taking selfies
From New York Post, November 11, 2017, by Jennifer Wright: "There’s a fairly common refrain in these pieces that selfie takers are “narcissistic,” despite the fact that a 2017 study from Brigham Young University indicated that’s not generally true. As Alicia Eler...
Could the selfie smash the patriarchy?
From the Chicago Reader, January 10, 2018, by Alicia Swiz: If you're an Instagram user, you've probably noticed a hashtag called #2017bestnine circulating in your feed during the past few weeks. It's from the Top Nine app, first launched in 2015, on which users enter...
A selfie critique: Alicia Eler’s book ‘Selfie Generation’ considers self images
From Duluth News Tribune, January 4, 2018, by Christa Lawler: Self-portrait of author Alicia Eler, whose book "The Selfie Generation" was published in November. Photo submitted by Eler A celebrity posts a buzzed-about selfie. A cat finds a way to navigate a recording...
What Happens to Our Obsession With Selfies Inside a Place Like Jumbo’s Clown Room?
From LA Weekly, October 31, 2017 by Alicia Eler: The following is an excerpt from Alicia Eler's new book Selfie Generation: How Our Self-Images Are Changing Our Notions of Privacy, Sex, Consent and Culture, which comes out on Nov. 7 (Skyhorse Publishing, $24.99). In...
The Conversation: Alicia Eler Celebrates the Selfie
From Newcity Newspaper, January 4, 2018, by Michael Workman: By Michael Workman Prolific Newcity alum and now art critic for the Star-Tribune in Minneapolis Alicia Eler, an ever-curious investigator into media’s cultural messages who is as thoughtful a commentator as...
In Search of the Authentic Selfie
From Hyperallergic, November 9, 2017: Screenshot of Google Image search results for “selfie” Editor’s note: The following excerpt is the ninth chapter of The Selfie Generation: How Our Self-Images Are Changing Our Notions of Privacy, Sex, Consent, and Culture, Alicia...