媒介技术与文学恐慌——数字媒介、数字文学与文学叙事新发展

Media Technology and Literary Panic——Digital Media,Digital Literature and New Development of Literary Narration

媒介技术已经对文学发展产生重要影响。进入21世纪,在文学发展领域,电子文学、超文本文学、数字文学、网络文学、赛博文学等概念耳熟能详。而这些概念无不与媒介技术有着重要关联。在文学与媒介研究过程中,存在一个有趣的现象:媒介技术更新换代往往会引起文学界的"恐慌"。例如,广播、电视和电影等媒介技术的出现使得文学界"质疑"和"反对"之声四起。在某种程度上,这些媒介技术甚至一度被视为良好文学作品的"破坏者",使文学与新兴媒介技术之间建立"对立"关系,但不可否认,媒介技术,尤其是数字媒介的发展,也促使文学叙事迎来新发展。

Media technology has left an important impact on the development of literature.Since the 21st century,concepts such as electronic literature,hypertext literature,digital literature,network literature,and cyber literature are often mentioned when we talking about literature.And all these concepts have a close connection with media technology.But in the course of research on literature and media,there is an interesting phenomenon:the upgrading of media technology often causes "panic" in literary circles.For example,the emergence of media technologies such as radio,television and film has made the "questioning" and "opposing" voices.And these media technologies were once regarded as the "destroyer" of good literary works,and have created an "opposing" relationship between literature and emerging media technologies.However,it cannot be denied that the development of media technology,especially digital media,has also promoted the new development of literary narration.