The Nascent State Of Literature In Media Evolution

Due to the popularization of computers and Internet, Chinese literary ecology hasbeen dramatically changed another time since 1990s after its marginalization in 1980scaused by television culture shock. Computer, Internet and other digital media not onlychanged the social environment but also directly involved into the literary creation,influenced literature from the aspects of text pattern, author, valuation and readingattitude, and thus innovated literary production completely. A new literary world has beenestablished on the virtual network. The literature in this virtual world is much freer thanthat in our reality. It despised lots of principles that beyond literature and evendeconstructed many norms of literature itself. The characteristics of boundlesscommunication, convenience and interaction, massive cyberspace, thenon-materialization of digital writing, and hypertext coding made the writing easily andcasually, liberated expression from all the possible obstacles. But the non-materializationwriting also made the signs increase and expand multiplicatively and infinitely, anddissolved the transcendental meanings and eternal values pursued by the traditionalliterature. Therefore, the network writers usually despised the traditional values, dissolvedthe poetic experiences, and thus developed a kind of excessive writing style, made thepsychotherapeutic literature everywhere. However, the short massages transmitted byMobil phone nowadays may have offered a chance to promise a future for the literatureonline.After a short study on the transformation and the characteristics of Chinese Writingwith Digital Media, the author analyzes the new comer in literature world brought bynetwork, the rebellious writing. Some basic characteristics similar to traditional literaturecan be seen in the poetry, novel and prose on the internet, and thus some critics argue thatthere is no network literature, but only the literature issued on the website. However,another kind of literature based on the unique environment of writing and transmission onthe network showed us an alternative character. It distinguishes itself from the traditionaland elegant writing by its rebellious character. Some of the creations of this kind factuallyembrace the good meanings while intentionally present themselves to us with ugly and vicious images. The combination of unorthodox with honesty, clever and humor withteasing has become the representative esthetic taste and artistic fashion of the generationfloating on the network. A second kind of rebellious writing is not due to the culturalstrategy but to the rebellious views of decadence and desperation. And still a third onewhich strongly criticize the reality with a cynical attitude. The mentioned kinds ofrebellious writings indicated a liberation of literature. Of cause, there are lots of writingsthat fell into the personalized baseness and abnormal catharsis and then turned themselvesinto rubbish. But if the network's evolution is irresistible, we must confront and undertakeall the possible results.For the end to argue against the blame towards network writings, the authorcompares the innovation in literature caused by media evolution with the other two onesin history (the first is in 2nd to 3rd century the influence of the application of paper on theinnovation of literary style in Wei Jin Period in China; the second is the development ofpublishing industry on the rising of novels in Europe), offers an careful analysis, and thenargues that in history, the liberation of expression caused by media evolution usuallycomes to us together with the popular culture rising. Those so-called "non-literature"elements may possibly turn into a real literature because of the constructionism andhitorism characters in literature. At last, the author analyzes the justice in the publicaesthetic views brought to us by the innovation of literature, and emphasizes the necessityto be temperance on the new media writings.