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...
by Alicia | Sep 21, 2017 | selfiegeneration
The selfie shooter is the copyright holder of a selfie. But what if the selfie shooter is a monkey, not a human being? Nature photographer David Slater recently settled in the now infamous “monkey selfie” court case brought against him by PETA on behalf of Naruto, a...
by Alicia | Sep 15, 2017 | selfiegeneration
Selfies will never be the same again. Huge news struck the selfieverse this week when Apple announced that the long-awaited iPhone X (pronounced “X,” not “ten”) could be unlocked using only the owner’s selfie through a complex facial recognition system called Face ID....
by Alicia | Dec 3, 2015 | Selfie Press, selfiegeneration
Thank you CalState Fullerton, Camera Absurda Photography Club and Julie Orser for inviting me to speak about my selfie culture research project.
by Alicia | May 12, 2014 | About, News, Performance, selfiegeneration
Who cares about selfies? Me and you and a lot of smart folks in Tulsa. On Thursday, May 8, I had the pleasure of presenting my selfie lecture at the Philbrook Downtown. Discussing the relationship between selfies, the history of self-portraiture in photography and...
by Alicia | Apr 16, 2014 | Online, Performance, Press, selfiegeneration
The good folks at Seattle’s Bumbershoot Arts & Culture Festival invited me to participate on the panel “Why Selfies? Why Introverts? Why Now?” at Town Hall. I had a grand time talking about selfies’ relationship to the history of...
