by Alicia | Jan 13, 2014 | Hyperallergic, Selfie Column
CHICAGO — The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, will begin on February 7, but theselfie olympics have already gone viral. These gold-, silver- and bronze-winning selfies show individuals displaying amazing agility in relation to the mirror. These competitors...
by Alicia | Jan 7, 2014 | Hyperallergic, Selfie Column
CHICAGO — We’re starting 2014 off right with lots and lots of selfies. Now that we’vecrowned the selfie kings, it’s back to selfie business as usual. Twenty-year-old Jen Selter seems complacent with the fact that she does mostly body selfies, telling the New York...
by Alicia | Jan 7, 2014 | Hyperallergic, Selfie Column
CHICAGO — The race for selfie king is on. James Franco’s piece in the New York Timesnow rivals Benny Winfield Jr.’s interview in VICE. “Selfies are something new to me, but as I have become increasingly addicted to Instagram, I have been accused of posting too many of...
by Alicia | Dec 23, 2013 | Hyperallergic, Selfie Column
CHICAGO — Just because “selfies” was named Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year and Barack Obama shot that funeral selfie doesn’t mean these internet self-portraits are a passing fad. No, my friends, selfies are here to stay, both in a public discourse and art...
by Alicia | Dec 9, 2013 | Hyperallergic, Selfie Column, Writing
CHICAGO — What’s it like to be on the other side of the mirror? Selfies are contemporary self-portraits shot through the reverse-mirror effect available through smartphones and webcams. We see ourselves reflected back into the smartphone or webcam mirror, snap the...
by Alicia | Nov 25, 2013 | Hyperallergic, Online, Press, Selfie Column
CHICAGO — The selfie is an aesthetic with radical potential for bringing visibility to people and bodies that are othered. This week we present to you a few instances of empowerment that we caught via the #feministselfie hashtag on Twitter, which began in response to...
