When Internet Literature Becomes Mainstream Literature

Network Literature refers to the newly created literary works, literature-like texts and network artifacts containing part of literary components that are presented with the help of hypertext linking and multimedia interpretation using the Internet as the display platform and communication medium. Among them, the network original works are mainly.

Because of the powerful network media, network literature is characterized by diversity, interactivity and difficulty in protecting intellectual property rights. Its form can be similar to traditional literature or non-traditional genres such as blog posts and posts. Real-time replies, real-time comments and voting are important features of Internet literature. The ease of dissemination of Internet literature has led to intellectual property rights not being easily protected.

It should be noted that: Internet literature and traditional literature are not opposing poles, but an organic system of mutual penetration. A lot of traditional literature has become a part of network literature through electronic; the authors of network literature have also received traditional literature. At the same time, network literature has entered the field of traditional literature through publishing; and relying on the great influence of the network, it has become an important part of popular culture, which in turn affects traditional literature.

Network literature was created with the popularization of the Internet. The Internet provides hundreds of millions of netizens with as much as constant sand of all kinds of literary material information, and at the same time, a kind of new media as a carrier, rely on, means to netizens as the object of acceptance, with a different from the traditional characteristics of the literature of the network quietly flourished.

Network literature is divided into three kinds of patterns: one kind is already existed literary works through the electronic scanning technology or artificial input and other ways to enter the Internet; one kind is directly in the Internet "published" literary works; and one kind is through the computer to create or through the computer software generated by literary works into the Internet, such as computer novel "Betrayal". Internet, such as the computer novel "Betrayal", as well as with the openness of the Internet, several writers dozens of writers and even hundreds of netizens *** with the creation of "relay novels" and so on.

Now people say network literature refers to the online "published" literary works, including those edited, published in various types of network art publications (electronic newspapers) works, electronic bulletin board (BBS) on the unedited, individual randomly published literary works, as well as some electronic mail (E-mails) in the literary works. Mail) in the literary works. This kind of network literature is also called "network original literature" by websites such as "Banyan Shushita".

Currently the more influential literary websites are "Literature City", "Banyan Tree", "Chinese Network Literature Essence", "Golden Bookstore", and "The Golden Bookstore". Golden Bookstore", "Sea of Silver Sands", "Mang Kunlun" and other sites. Some of the more influential works of Internet literature published in the past year include "The First Intimate Contact" (by Cai Zhiheng, Knowledge Publishing House, November 1999 edition), "The Net of the Little Demon" (by Zhou Jieru, Spring Breeze Literature and Art Publishing House, April 2000 edition), "Farewell to Vian" (by Anne Bao, China Social Science Publishing House, January 2000 edition), and "The Age of the Old Cohabitation" (by Zhang Jian, China Social Science Publishing House, January 2000 edition), "The Age of the Old Cohabitation" (by Zhang Jian and others). (by Zhang Jian and others, China Social Science Press, January 2000 edition), The Wise Sage Dongfangshuo (by Longyin, Writers' Publishing House, January 2000 edition), Click 1999 (by Gu Xiang, Twenty-first Century Publishing House, January 2000 edition), and 3 volumes of the series of "Network Star" (by Huacheng Publishing House, March 2000 edition), "Network Literature" series of 10 books (Hubei Education Press, January 2000 edition). Some commentaries described the book market as entering the "net-reading era" from the "map-reading era".

Network literature features

Novel-based.

Most of the authors are young or even very young children, but some of them have already written profound and connotative, literary works,

The younger ones express their feelings, gain recognition, interaction, and improvement, and the older ones hold certain commercial motives.

There is a high number of very young LOLIs in the network, which leads to the fact that most of the people think that the Internet literature has no substance, is childish, and is not suitable for the children's needs.

Internet literature has no connotation, childish, but this is one-sided

Internet literature advantages

Internet literature has a fast update, wide dissemination, reading group is huge, not subject to traditional restrictions.

Problems Worth Thinking About

1. Internet literature is, in a certain sense, the literature of young people, which deserves enthusiastic attention and should be fully emphasized. Because according to statistics, among the about 50 million Internet users who are currently online in China, 85% of them are between 21 and 40 years old. Behind the rise of Internet literature is the rapid growth of young writers born in the 70s and even the 80s, as well as young literature lovers born in the 90s. Some people even describe Internet literature as "the precursor of the new cultural movement of the times", and the rise of Internet literature can "blow the trumpet of a new civilization". Excessive criticism is not conducive to the growth of a new generation of Internet literature writers, and conservative accusations are even ignoring the reality. The cultivation of this group of young writers should be emphasized by the relevant departments.

2, network literature needs healthy reasoning, incisive network literary criticism. At present, the "e-criticism" of network literature on the Internet is very lively. This kind of "e-criticism" refers to the online very common, any netizen can be posted on the comments, can be a long speech, can also be a sentence, a word. Almost all important literary phenomena, there are a large number of short or long "e-criticism" on the Internet. For example, some websites have specially opened "Wang Shuo and Jin Yong" and "I see beautiful writers" channels. However, most of these comments are posted on forums without any editing, and casual and abusive criticisms are more common. Online literary theory and literary criticism are still quite weak, and the voice of academy-type and doctrine-type literary criticism is almost non-existent. The healthy development of online literature requires a large number of knowledgeable and well-reasoned literary critics to devote themselves to the phenomenon and the works of serious comments.

3. The copyright issue is a difficult problem related to the development of Internet literature. 1999 Wang Meng, Bi Shumin and other six writers sued the "Beijing Online" website for infringement of copyright, which aroused widespread concern in the literary and art circles and the Internet community, and the verdict caused controversy. The six famous writers sued the Beijing Online website for unauthorized publication of their fully copyrighted literary works, such as Hard Porridge, A Lot of Chicken Feathers, Appointment of Death, and The Black Stallion, and the court ruled in favor of the six writers. The court decision pointed out that the online access of works is a new way of dissemination of works, and that the act of digitization of works itself does not have originality in the sense of copyright law, and that the changes in the form of carriers and the mode of dissemination of the works do not affect the authors' exclusive rights over their works. Therefore, the defendant uploaded the plaintiff's work to the Internet without permission, infringing on the plaintiff's right to use his work and the right to remuneration. The defendant should stop the infringement, publish an apology statement on its homepage, and compensate the plaintiff for the economic loss. This case is known as "the first case of online infringement in China", and the outcome of the trial is of far-reaching significance for online copyright protection. Some industry insiders believe that excessive protection of online copyright will hinder the further development of the domestic network, especially at present, the Chinese network information resources are still in the stage of scarcity, the digitization of existing works is also an important task to promote the dissemination of China's science and culture.

By and large, online literature is currently in the process of spontaneous and random founding, and it is still difficult to compete with traditional paper-based literature, and many works are still quite naive. However, many authors of online literature believe that when the Internet becomes a more accustomed and familiar media, online literature will become an important way of literary circulation. In the era of e-reading, Internet literature is still as airy as ever in China's mainstream literary world, but it is still transparent. Lu Xun Literature Prize, network literature has been completely wiped out, as China's highest award for long novels, the eighth Maodun Literature Prize, a new change is that network novels can participate in the evaluation, but must have landed in the book, and out of the whole. In accordance with this rule, has not yet wrapped up the popular network novel "Tomb Raider Notes" failed to be selected, the book represents a series of network popular novels with a large number of readers were recommended, had been netizens have high hopes. Among the participating works, only "Bashan Old Story" and "The Wind in the Office", two real network novels, were selected.4. Survival environment of network writers: the signing rate is extremely low. The situation of writers signing contracts to gain income is like the old pyramid, the people at the top are a minority, and the number of people who can gain public recognition and have their works published is even fewer and farther between. At the bottom of the pyramid, the number of words uploaded is disproportionate to the income. The authors of a large number of literary works, without any return and without signing.