by Alicia | Apr 7, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Selfie Column, Writing
LOS ANGELES — What’s the best thing about selfies right now? That they are everywhere, and there’s nothing you can do to stop them. According to the internet, selfies are both the cause and effect of many social issues today. Can a selfie make you skinnier? Of course...
by Alicia | Apr 2, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Selfie Column, Writing
The new web series #Hashtag follows the lives of young queer women in Chicago whose dating patterns and attractions are significantly affected by the technologies that they use and, at times, abuse. The drama takes place on the mobile devices of Liv and Skyler, two...
by Alicia | Mar 31, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
Jon Rutzmoser’s thin book of poetry packed with thick descriptions of dicks, dire and dramatic Oedipal complexes, heavy-petting psychoanalytic theory references, and Disneyland descriptors made me laugh, pissed me off, had me rolling my eyes, and had me wondering what...
by Alicia | Mar 31, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Selfie Column, Writing
LOS ANGELES — How do we talk about real shit online? In the selfie world, where we become two-dimensional representations of ourselves as we would like to be seen, it’s sometimes not possible to do more than just like, reblog, retweet, ignore, or simply comment. It is...
by Alicia | Mar 26, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
LOS ANGELES — In journalism, Betteridge’s law of headlines states that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered with the word “no.” Such is also the case for the Safe & Sound?, a video project by Portland-based artists, activists, and community...
by Alicia | Mar 26, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Selfie Column, Writing
LOS ANGELES — What is a selfie but a momentary image of oneself captured in social-network time? The selfie can be shot anytime, anywhere, and uploaded instants later. Take Ashley Keast, a burglar in the UK who, after robbing a home, placed his SIM card inside a...
