by Alicia | Mar 31, 2023 | Online, Press, Selfie Press, selfiegeneration
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...
by Alicia | Feb 13, 2021 | Selfie Press, selfiegeneration
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...
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by Alicia | May 26, 2019 | Press, Print, Selfie Press
I am honored to be a part of Jerry Saltz’s take on the selfie in his column for this week’s New York Magazine. Check out the quote here: Selfies are usually casual, improvised, fast; their primary purpose is to be seen here, now, by other people, most of...
by Alicia | Jan 27, 2019 | Selfie Press, selfiegeneration
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...
by Alicia | Jun 9, 2018 | Selfie Press, selfiegeneration
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...
by Alicia | Feb 14, 2018 | Selfie Press, selfiegeneration
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...
