Navigating the Virtual Realm: Cybercultural Portrayals in Post-postmodern Fiction
Navigating the Virtual Realm: Cybercultural Portrayals in Post-postmodern Fiction

Summary/Abstract: In this article, I explore the portrayals of cyberculturalism in post-postmodernliterature, exploring how a number of contemporary literary works have beeninfluenced by virtuality, digital technology, electronic textuality, and multime-diality. I also examine how cyberculturalism in literature represents a chal-lenge to traditional notions of authorship and ownership, fosteringcollaboration and collective creation. Furthermore, I display how cybercultur-alism dismantles the publishing monopoly and provides authors with a varietyof outlets to release their works. Additionally, I draw upon the dominance ofthe internet, AI, ChatGPT, and social media in shaping new forms of social com-munication in post-postmodern literature, and how cybercultural environ-ments impact users’ identities, lifestyles, and relationships. To illustrate theparadigms of cyberculturalism in post-postmodern literature, I analyze severalcontemporary literary works through the lens of cyberculturalism and discusskey characteristics of cyberculturalism as portrayed in those works. I alsotouch upon themes such as increased level of (dis)connectivity, the conse-quences of online anonymity, cyberharassment, dichotomy of online/offlineidentities, and man-machine symbiosis as represented in the selected works.

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