by Alicia | Aug 4, 2013 | Hyperallergic, Salon, Selfie Column
This article originally appeared on Hyperallergic. CHICAGO — Selfies are private moments made available for public consumption. When the shutter snaps, the subject realizes that they’re ready to admit something about themselves that would otherwise remain hidden....
by Alicia | Jul 22, 2013 | Hyperallergic, Selfie Column, Writing
CHICAGO — This week’s selfie series is curated entirely from submissions that you, dear internet reader, sent to me through the selfies [at] hyperallergic [dot] com email address. I was wondering if you’d accept the challenge to write, and indeed, you did. Thank you....
by Alicia | Jul 15, 2013 | Hyperallergic, Selfie Column
CHICAGO — Selfies are part of our voluntary self-exposure in an attempt to take back the images of ourselves, but in the process we also give ourselves away. In the world of online selfies, faces are the focus; bodies tend to appear as afterthoughts. We see a...
by Alicia | Jul 8, 2013 | Hyperallergic, Selfie Column, Writing
CHICAGO — The selfie is a mirror, an illusion of a mirror, an egotistical moment wrapped in time, and an embarrassing moment post-shave. But there is something curious about seeing your doppelgänger reflected back at you rather than running into him or her on the...
by Alicia | Jul 1, 2013 | Hyperallergic, Selfie Column, Writing
CHICAGO — A few weeks ago, I thought that I’d had it with selfies It began with a simple Facebook post declaring: “Just say NO to SELFIES <3 <3 <3.” Less than a week later, I found myself doing exactly what I feared: Alone in a dressing room at Target, I...
by Alicia | Jun 24, 2013 | Hyperallergic, Selfie Column, Writing
CHICAGO — People online have a lot to say about selfies: love them, hate them, feel indifferent about them, think they’re part of internet culture, a place we escape to, meld with our offline lives (making for a fluid but often fraught IRL-URL existence), something we...
