Digitization Context And The New Century Literature

In the contemporary society, a digitization context interweaved by broadcast, television, movie, Internet, mobile phone and so on forms gradually. Compared with paper medium, the digitization context not only provides a more free space but also contributes to the astonishing revolutionary change in new century literature. It makes an impact on literature in many terms such as the composition of authors, the feeling of readers, the form of text and the concept of value.Since the 1920s, especially the new century, when the globalization is turbulent, the information technology develops rapidly, the market economy forms gradually and the change of social environment is bound to bring the significant change of cultural system and the prevailing custom of the appreciation of beauty and thereby enables the new century literature to have a new distinctive character different from the past. At the same time, in order to be adapted to the change of the new century, the author himself makes some adjustments in the terms of observing manner, perceptional manner, the mode of thinking and the manner of speech consciously and unconsciously. The coming of 80s writer group, writer typologization and other problems have been caught much attention. In addition, the social consciousness, the self-identification, the value orientation and so on of the writer group has taken great changes. With the application and spread of Internet, literary works has changed a lot not only in its existence and language forms, but also in its styles and structure. The works has no longer an enclosed text, but instead they are beginning to show their openness. The dynamic electronic text appears the hypertext and multimedia text used widely. That's to say, human beings have entered the whole media era.Meanwhile, the type of works in the new century literature broadens widely. The film and television literature, network literature, short message literature and so on grows in accord with new medium, especially the appearing of fantasy literature, through time and space novel infusing energy into new century literature. All kinds of changes such as the world, the writer, and the works bring the new literary recipients. The digital context, reader's reception mode, acceptance psychology and choice have changed a lot. They tend more to screen, giving up reading carefully and choosing to scan or even browse. The readers of new era are possessed with mind set such as eagerness for new knowledge, exploitation for novelty, expression of their character, following crowd, participating equally, innovation, and chasing for their own; they have bigger rights to choose, not only to follow their own reading counterparts but also to separate and reconnect the reading counterparts. As the Dominos novels and interactive novels spring out, the blog culture is blooming more and more. In addition, the aesthetic concepts and aesthetic ideal of the readers have also changed: their aesthetic imagination weakens, the sacred is subverted, their ideal disappears, and they lessen the depth and gradually move towards the vulgar and entertainment.Digital context is bound closely to the emergency of new century literature. New century is not only a new time concept, but also an indication of the emergency of a new literature atmosphere different from the past. The transition of the new century literature under the digital context not only becomes an unavoidable practical problem of literary composition, but also is a theoretical problem which needs to be faced seriously and concerned profoundly. It is of significant sense to bring the problem of taking the new century literature as an entity to the digital context to observe and study.