IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY AND NEW MEDIA ON LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE: AN ANALYSIS

Abstract

This brief write-up is about the relationship between language and literature and how new media is playing its pivotal role in bringing the two a bit closer than the yesteryears. From a layman's perspective the language and literature are poles apart, though they tend to go hand in hand. But in reality, we must unanimously subscribe to one point that although the language and literature look like they are poles apart, they are, indeed, intrinsically related. We cannot think of literature without the use of language and until or unless language has some context to evoke or to talk about, it fails to become a language. Both of them happen to create a very delicate and meaningful symbiosis everytime and their independent existence is quite unimaginable. We cannot really segregate one from the other. On the other hand, when it comes to defining new media, it refers to interactive forms of communication which use the internet that incorporate vlogs, podcasts, social networking sites, YouTube, text messaging, Wikipedia and all other computer aided communication formats available online today. New media requires a computer or mobile device along with internet access. This article is also going to emphasize how this new media is assisting and influencing the students of language and literature studies today in adapting with the changing times. This piece of writing will also have a look at a few of the pros and cons of the use of new media by students of language and literature.