Perspectives on mobile phone literature

Mobile phone literature cannot change literary writing

Wu Liang: Mobile phone literature is equivalent to "oral literature"

Wu Liang, a famous literary critic in Shanghai, believes that the so-called text messages, It is the circulation of all short spoken words on mobile phones: greetings, blessings, notifications, interrogations, contact codes, private conversations, jokes, messages... If we think that they are all literary writing in a broad sense, then it is only equivalent to what we used to say "Oral Literature".

Wu Liang believes that writing mobile phone literature must be impromptu and think with your thumbs. If you use other tools to write it first (whether it is a brush, a hard pen or a computer) and then input it into your mobile phone, it is a kind of fraud. Can you call Tang poetry "mobile phone literature" just because you input it into your mobile phone and send it out? Rather than saying that mobile phone literature has changed literary writing, it is better to say that text messages have changed life. With mobile phone literature, we can travel thousands of miles away.

Cheng Wei: Mobile phone literature is harmful to literature

Jiangxi writer Cheng Wei believes that literature is a spiritual thing and the pure land of people’s souls in the materialized era, and mobile phones, as a high-tech era The involvement of products in literature is undoubtedly a harm. Cheng Wei analyzed: "It may be that some writers want to find a new way of literary communication through mobile phones, which makes them eager to try mobile phone literature."

"In my opinion, mobile phone literature cannot be regarded as formal "Literary works can only be considered contemporary urban folk texts, just like folk literature." If a writer engages in mobile phone literature creation, then he must lower his spiritual level and adopt a method of "surrendering" to mobile phones. To create in a manner that caters to the requirements and interests of mobile phone literature, this would be harmful to his own creation. Cheng Wei also believes that even if a writer is interested in creating mobile phone literature, he will ultimately be no match for the wisdom of the people, because most of the current mobile phone text messages or mobile sketches are modified after being widely circulated, integrating the vast number of folk wisdom. Collective intelligence. People should be allowed to entertain themselves

Writer Chen Cun: Why not let people have fun?

Chen Cun, a famous Shanghai writer and known as the "Master of Internet Literature", responded to the opposition's point of view and asked why not let others play? Chen Cun believes that the emergence of mobile phone literature, like online literature, is an inevitable product of this era of technology and commerce. He emphasized that a person who has never written happens to come across mobile phone literature, and he is interested in making up such a joke, why not? We should allow them to do what they are interested in and let the people enjoy themselves.

Chen Cun said that the reason why mobile phone literature has become a public topic is because it provides new possibilities. Regarding the commercial nature behind mobile phone literature, he believes that its commercial elements are just like newspapers relying on advertising to make a living, which is completely understandable.

Chen Cun believes that the characteristic of mobile phone literature is that it breaks the boundaries between art and non-art, and breaks the boundaries between literary professionals and amateur authors. However, the storage time of textual expressions in virtual space such as online literature and text message literature is limited. If excellent works move from the Internet and mobile phones to paper media, such works with literary value can be fixed and made Preservability and longevity.

Scholar Chen Li: Mobile phone literature is the twin brother of Internet literature

Chen Li, a doctor of literature and a professor at the School of Liberal Arts of Jiangxi Normal University, believes that mobile phone literature should have two meanings. One is to use text messages as a form to express the content of literature, which can be called "literary text messages"; the other is to use literary means to express text messages, which can be called "SMS mobile phone literature" in a pure sense.

Chen Li pointed out that as a new race in the literary base camp, mobile phone literature has posed unprecedented challenges to traditional mainstream literature from content to form with its cutting-edge cultural tentacles. Taking traditional print media literature as a reference, mobile phone literature has its own distinctive characteristics. Mobile phone literature is a new type of language art equipped with electronic technology. It is the product of the development of digital technology to a certain stage. It uses mobile phones as writing tools (so it is also called thumb literature), is supported by digital communication networks, and uses multimedia high-speed transmission systems. A new literary style for creation, dissemination, storage and reading. The extremely fast speed of communication has compressed the time and space distance between authors and readers, making mobile phone literature become people's spiritual "fast food" in the first place. The screen-reading electronic storage and reading mode places text message literature in the context of mass cultural communication, which is incomparable to print media literature.

However, in this regard it is similar to the so-called "network literature" and can be said to be twins born in the multimedia era. Writer Ge Hongbing: Text messaging has its special function. It is a special way of communication that does not require physical presence or voice. It is more literary and has an irreplaceable effect of spiritual communication. Not only will mobile phone literature not disappear, but it will develop even more. SMS literature will become a new literary style.

Ye Yanbin, deputy editor of "Poetry Magazine": Literary works appear on mobile phones and literary works are spread through mobile phones. This is a new phenomenon, but it cannot be called SMS literature, but certain literary styles are spread through mobile phones. . If a separate literary category is listed for this purpose, further recognition by the industry and readers will be needed.

Literary critic Zhang Ning: Mobile phone literature is nonsense! The so-called mobile phone literature is just a change in the carrier of literature, which has no meaning to the essence of literature. Mobile phone literature is not established at all. I will not talk about it as an issue in the field of literature.

Netizen Lin Guichun: Mobile phone literature will become a new frontier for literature. Mobile phone literature is the product of thumb culture. It is a new literary style that uses mobile phone transmission as a form of communication and is based on aphorisms. It is short, concise, timely and literate.

Netizen Forest: Since ancient times, the carrier of literature has undergone many changes, from bamboo slips to paper to computers to mobile phones, etc. It is only the carrier that has changed, not the literature itself. Li Shaojun, one of the founders of mobile phone literature: It is entirely possible that mobile phone literature will become popular

Li Shaojun, editor-in-chief of Tianya magazine. Li Shaojun told reporters that mobile phone literature is a concept that has been agreed upon by everyone and was not proposed by a specific person. "When we do this, we mainly feel that there are too many vulgar things on mobile phones. Why not let some excellent literary works be circulated on them. For example, some short and beautiful poems, blessings or short stories with real wisdom. After all, Mobile phones are an increasingly important platform and channel. If we don’t do it, others will do it.”

Li Shaojun believes that it is entirely possible for mobile phone literature to become popular. He said: "In fact, many newspapers are now participating and opening relevant pages. After all, everyone likes short, concise, humorous and interesting things, and writers are also trying to write shorter, those with a little improvisational nature. Words are very popular. "Mobile phones have built a platform for creation, publication, and circulation, just like print and the Internet. As long as there is such a platform, people will use it to create and spread literature.