User:XIAO BING HUANG/The Selfie Culture on Chinese Social Media
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Selfie, as an action, generally refers to the taking of a picture with the front-facing camera of a smartphone or a regular camera[1].
With the spread of smartphones in China and the rise of mobile phone software such as Weibo(Chinese: 微博), WeChat (Chinese: 微信) and Meitu (Chinese: 美图秀秀), the act of taking selfies has become a new type of social culture, generating a "new form of self-disclosure" that affects the construction of individual identities and changes existing beauty standards[2].