디지털 매체 시대와 문학

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to perform an analysis in order to examine the influence of digital media to literature. The beginning of digital age in the latter half of 1990 brought about transformation in all fields. Digital technology have been influencing our lifestyle and give new fundamental rules of culture and art. Recently there have been discussions on the crisis of humanities or crisis of literature. Especially digital multimedia have been known as weakening or cause death the role of literature. Digital media has transformed literature which heralded e-book, digital interactive narratives such as hyper fictions and games. Unlike existing traditional reading pattern, Hypertext has many types of reading. The images only in the picture combines audio and text in digital multimedia literature. In the process of the pursuit of commercial value, entertainment culture which have combined digital technology has competitive power and popularity than high-class culture. Literary situation is aggravating mostly because of digital culture which prevails in every domain. How can literature survive in the age of digitalization? All discussions on crisis of literature must become method of resistance in itself. In conclusion, we need to preserve and maintain literary identity with an ability to think creatively, such as reflective reading works of literature representing analogue culture, in other words, thinking and criticizing culture.