The Mutant Cute: Meitu, the Selfie, and the Rewriting of Global Identities

By Inte Gloerich, October 5, 2017

Author: Patrick Lichty In technologically-enabled society, the selfie has become the intersection between digital narcissism and fungible identity. Famous images of throngs with their backs to famous paintings and presidential candidates underscore the necessity for proving one’s existence through tagging the moment with the photographer’s face. However, with the rise of “augmentation” (AR-based props and [...]