Chinese Journal of Literary Criticism

No.1, 2021

 

The Social Characteristics and Effects of Internet Literature

(Abstract)

 

Guan Xuelian

 

Compared with previous literary forms, Internet literature produced by the combination of the Internet and literature has formed new social characteristics, which are mainly reflected in: the new spatial and temporal view in the Internet era and the expansion of social forms in the world of Internet literature; the online tribal existence in the Internet era and the emergence of virtual social functions in Internet literature; hot topics in the Internet era and the shaping of social personality in Internet literature; the transformation between mass and niche in the Internet era. These social characteristics of Internet literature have both positive and negative effects.