Today and Future of Literature in the Age of Information and Technology

The information technology,such as the mobile phone and the Internet,has greatly influenced the modes of existence of literature,whose means of creating,publishing and reading becomes sharply different from the previous ones.The demarcation between writing and reading is fading,the aesthetic interest becoming more and more popular,and the literary genre being destroyed and invented at will.It seems that literature is deconstructing itself,hence the debate on the death of literature becomes hot in recent years.But generally speaking,information technology will be a far-reaching aesthetic revolution for literature,which may mean the soon arrival of an age of popularized and democratized literary discourse.