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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 | 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...
by Alicia | May 12, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Selfie Column, Writing
LOS ANGELES — I was on an airplane flying back from Tulsa when I happened upon the phenomenon of mile-high selfies. Wifi is available up high, so why not take a selfie? Flight attendants are filling the skies with hashtags like #crewlife and #airhostess. Somewhere in...
by Alicia | Apr 28, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Selfie Column, Writing
LOS ANGELES — The biggest selfie news of the past week comes from drones, which have spawned a new selfie category: the dronie. To shoot them, people program their drones to take short videos of themselves that operate like extended selfies. Most dronies begin with a...
by Alicia | Apr 14, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Selfie Column, Writing
LOS ANGELES — A selfie says a thousand words, especially when it’s taken with a longtime friend. We’ve all taken selfies to commemorate something together; it’s as if the moment doesn’t exist if we didn’t take that photo. Some selfie situations are more intense than...
