death of the book?
How many times do you read a book in a month? If you feel quite awkward on this question, then , how often do you surf the net? With the rise of digital contents and internet, some people started to predict the 'end of the literature'.
Friedrich Kittler, theorists of the media, wrote "The dream of a real, visible, or audible world arising from the word is over. " The book lost its monopoly over the storing and dissemination of cultural material.
Some people criticize that digital technology undermines the filed of literature, however, digital technology influences the change of the form of the text, which gives new possibilities of literature.
Then, what are the positive possibilities of literature in digital age?
Internet technology expands the base of literature by making readers participate in constructing text. It makes literature as a more active genre. Literature has been considered as one-way communication .Digital author and find an anonymous murmur in the links of hyper texts on the web. Now, many authors post their work on the web and readers give their feedback to the authors. Well-known Korean female author, 'Han Gang' said ' the responses from readers on the net give her a lot of guidelines to proceed my work . Some readers even start to write their own story on the web. Digital technology also broadens the range of writers. Literature is not limited to expertised and skillful writers. All of us can share our story and enjoy it. 'The Association Of Writers For Nation Literature (AWNL) is a very authorized organization of Korean literature, but it is now opening doors to general people on its web site(http://www.minjak.or.kr) An author begins to write some part of story, and people one by one participate in continuing the story, which is called 'Relay Writing' . It gained many positive responses and the quality of the work was admired also.
Internet technology and the change of the form of tex make new territory of literature through active participation from readers. In Printed age, the relationship between author and writer is linear. In a digital world. texts are mobile and changeable. We can move a digital text around the world in an instant. Pages of digital text have the stability of liquid. They may be altered in their material arrangement of traces as they are read. They may be combined with other texts. reformatted in size and font. have sounds and images added to them or subtracted from them. Digital texts thus have more permanence than paper in the sense that they may be distributed or copied without alteration . Many Scholars have noted that novelty of hypertext in comparison with printed books and its implications for theory and literature .
Literature is the product of our live. All of the changes in our society ultimately literature. The changes of 21st century -rapid development of digital technology expand the territory of literature. Literature will never disappear as long as human beings who express one's feelings through language . It is not a crisis of literature. It is now jumping steps.
Friedrich Kittler, theorists of the media, wrote "The dream of a real, visible, or audible world arising from the word is over. " The book lost its monopoly over the storing and dissemination of cultural material.
Some people criticize that digital technology undermines the filed of literature, however, digital technology influences the change of the form of the text, which gives new possibilities of literature.
Then, what are the positive possibilities of literature in digital age?
Internet technology expands the base of literature by making readers participate in constructing text. It makes literature as a more active genre. Literature has been considered as one-way communication .Digital author and find an anonymous murmur in the links of hyper texts on the web. Now, many authors post their work on the web and readers give their feedback to the authors. Well-known Korean female author, 'Han Gang' said ' the responses from readers on the net give her a lot of guidelines to proceed my work . Some readers even start to write their own story on the web. Digital technology also broadens the range of writers. Literature is not limited to expertised and skillful writers. All of us can share our story and enjoy it. 'The Association Of Writers For Nation Literature (AWNL) is a very authorized organization of Korean literature, but it is now opening doors to general people on its web site(http://www.minjak.or.kr) An author begins to write some part of story, and people one by one participate in continuing the story, which is called 'Relay Writing' . It gained many positive responses and the quality of the work was admired also.
Internet technology and the change of the form of tex make new territory of literature through active participation from readers. In Printed age, the relationship between author and writer is linear. In a digital world. texts are mobile and changeable. We can move a digital text around the world in an instant. Pages of digital text have the stability of liquid. They may be altered in their material arrangement of traces as they are read. They may be combined with other texts. reformatted in size and font. have sounds and images added to them or subtracted from them. Digital texts thus have more permanence than paper in the sense that they may be distributed or copied without alteration . Many Scholars have noted that novelty of hypertext in comparison with printed books and its implications for theory and literature .
Literature is the product of our live. All of the changes in our society ultimately literature. The changes of 21st century -rapid development of digital technology expand the territory of literature. Literature will never disappear as long as human beings who express one's feelings through language . It is not a crisis of literature. It is now jumping steps.
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