Chinese Journal of Literary Criticism

No.1, 2024

The Data Nature and Data Criticism of Online Literature

(Abstract)

Zhou Bing

Taking data as the center, placing “devices” at the bottom of online literature, building a pedestal for criticism, and constructing a new paradigm of data criticism is not an absolute separation from print criticism, but to introduce data thinking and vision, and emphasize both literary and data nature, moving from qualitative to quantitative and qualitative combination, from human to humanmachine collaboration, and from single disciplinary criticism to interdisciplinary field and empirical criticism. Data criticism is not a utilitarian worship of data, nor does it slide into computationalism or dataism, but to better precipitate the experience and logic of data; It is not a one-sided data analysis or technical analysis, but a criticism that reflects the combination of technology and humanity on the basis of maintaining full vigilance against data.