매체 환경 변화에 따른 문학의 패러다임 전환 - 컴퓨터 매개 문학을 중심으로

Abstract

In recently years, rapid social cultural movement has arisen from a sea of highly technical electronic complexity. It is necessary to look into the true nature of a thing from various angles instead of looking merely at its surface. The computer and the related matters are at the center of the movement. The computer, accessible only to those with years of technical training, and seen as nothing more than a tool for calculation and data storage, has become accessible to those in the arts and humanities. Computers store all information in strings of zeros and ones, reducing everything to a digital representation. Additionally, the computer is a metamedium that can mimic other media, like film, photography, animation, computer game and print. Finally, computers can add an important quality to literature. In defining the qualities of this computer-mediated phenomenon on, it is fruitful to begin by looking through the brief history of this genre, and describing some of the major works that helped to create this new art form. By doing so, the features of this genre (as well as some of its limitations and possibilities) become evident, and this computer-mediated phenomenon on literature shall be called 'cumputer mediated literature(CML)'. Consequently this paper selected 'community literature' in inferior genres of CML as a main subject of study.