by Alicia | Sep 27, 2017 | Press
From Gawker, December 30th, 2015 by Gawker Staff: “How to Win Tinder” by Alicia Eler and Eve Peyser at The New Inquiry What, exactly, is Tinder? In their essay about the dominant mobile dating app, Alicia Eler and Eve Peyser explore the values, pitfalls, and invisible...
by Alicia | Sep 27, 2017 | Selfie Press, selfiegeneration
From The Washington Post, November 19, 2013, by Dan Zak: “Selfies are a form of vernacular photography, like amateur daguerreotype or Polaroid, says Alicia Eler, who writes routinely about selfies on the arts Web site Hyperallergic, and the prevalence of the...
by Alicia | Sep 27, 2017 | Press
From The New York Times, March 31, 2017 by Tom Vanderbilt: “The Netflix move seems another example of what Alicia Eler and Eve Peyser, in an essay in The New Inquiry, call “the tinderization of feeling.” The dating app Tinder, they argue, “is a metaphor for...
by Alicia | Sep 27, 2017 | Press
From The New Yorker, March 24, 2016, by Haley Mlotek: “The year before, the artists Alicia Eler and Kate Durbin had made a similar argument in identifying the “Teen-Girl Tumblr Aesthetic,” and Lindsay Zoladz, writing for Pitchfork, identified Lana del Rey as a...
by Alicia | Sep 27, 2017 | Selfie Press, selfiegeneration
From Vulture, January 26, 2014, by Jerry Saltz: “Selfies are usually casual, improvised, fast; their primary purpose is to be seen here, now, by other people, most of them unknown, in social networks. They are never accidental: Whether carefully staged or...
