웹소설의 발생: 모바일 디바이스, 다독, 정신 분산으로서의 예술

Abstract

In order to understand the new genre variant of web novels, media, genre (narrative format), and the form of products favorable to distribution are important. Novels that were serialized through the media of existing publishing capitalism discovered a new public sphere called the Internet in the 2000s. It was recognized as a high-tech manuscript capable of effective serialization and promotion. But it was not a manuscript, but a screen of an Internet-connected machine. The appropriate product format for it was not a method of being sold as an individual product like a book, but a continuous paid serial. Since 2007, Korea's publishing capital has collaborated with portal sites ‘Naver’ and ‘Next’ to competitively serialize the novels of representative box office success writers of ‘paragraph novels’ through the Internet. When Naver Web Novel started its service in 2013, it was not an established literary writer who published a number of bestsellers, but a genre writer who worked on an Internet novel serial site in the 2000s and a rookie who discovered his potential as a writer. Through this, it is a fact-based error to conclude that the combination of the ‘Literary Circle Novel’ and the Internet has ended in failure. ‘Literary Circle Novel’ was well received by the reader, and a subtle nodule is contained in this gap, which was not chosen despite notable achievements in subsequent publications. Through the perspective of media, genre, and marketability, this article aims to examine the emergence of new reading methods such as readability and reading, the period when “paragraph novels” were serialized on the Internet and web novels occurred. Through this, we will examine the characteristics of the “continuing to develop and not yet completed” genre of fiction, its current form of “web novel,” and the psychological state of modern people reading it.