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如何通过数字形式(如社交媒体、即时消息、新闻媒体和其他算法驱动的内容平台)与经验的中介相结合。关于数字媒体文学描述的评论文章倾向于将这些描述作为当代文化经验的模仿表现；这种分析主要考察了文学文本是否符合关于数字媒体影响的社会学假说。相反，我将关注文学文本本身，超越对数字体验的模仿表现，着眼于文学扰乱或重塑读者对世界的感知的能力，因为这些感知已经不可否认地受到了对一系列数字媒体的深刻沉浸的影响。我的研究将从以下几个问题开始：这些文本对体验和通过数字形式中介的体验之间的差异提出了什么主张？在这样的调解过程中出现了什么扭曲或启示，这些扭曲或启示对真理或人格的概念有什么影响？这些文本将读者吸引到什么参与模式中，以及读者的这种定位可能如何--如果有的话--与阅读现代主义文本所产生的定位不同？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普遍假设？

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?