The Ethics of Digitally Mediated Experience in Contemporary Poetry and Fiction

我感兴趣的是最近的诗歌和小说通过数字形式（如社交媒体，即时通讯，新闻媒体和其他算法驱动的内容平台）与经验中介的方式。关于数字媒体文学作品的批评性写作倾向于将这些作品作为当代文化经验的模仿表征;这种分析主要研究文学文本是否与数字媒体影响的社会学假设相一致。我将把重点放在文学文本本身，超越对数字体验的模仿再现的考虑，看看文学扰乱或重塑读者对世界的看法的能力，因为这些看法已经受到了一系列数字媒体的深刻影响。我的研究将从以下问题开始：这些文本对具身体验和通过数字形式介导的体验之间的差异做出了哪些声明？在这样的调解过程中出现了什么样的扭曲或启示，这些对真理或人格的概念有什么影响？这些文本吸引读者进入什么样的参与模式，读者的这种定位与阅读现代主义文本产生的定位有何不同？最后，这些问题的答案如何挑战或维护关于文学伦理价值的共同假设？

I am interested in the ways that recent poetry and fiction engages with the mediation of experience through digital forms (such as social media, instant messaging, news media, and other algorithm-driven content platforms). Critical writing on literary depictions of digital media has tended to approach these depictions as mimetic representations of contemporary cultural experience; such analyses have primarily examined whether literary texts align with sociological hypothesesabout the influence of digital media. I will focus instead on the literary texts themselves, moving beyond considerations of mimetic representation of digital experience to look at the capacity of literature to unsettle or reshape readers' perceptions of the world, given that these perceptions are already undeniably influenced by a profound immersion in a range of digital media. My research will proceed from the following questions: What claims do these texts make about the differences between embodied experience and that which is mediated through digital forms? What distortions orrevelations emerge in the process of such mediation, and what is the effect of these on conceptions of truth or personhood? What modes of participation do these texts draw readers into, and how-if at all-might such positioning of readers differ from that which arises out of reading modernist texts? Finally, how might the answers to these questions challenge or uphold common assumptions about the ethical value of literature?