The Influence of the Internet on Creation of the Reality in Modern Children’s and Adolescent Literature Cover Image

Zum Einfluss des Internets auf die Wirklichkeitsdarstellung in der heutigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
The Influence of the Internet on Creation of the Reality in Modern Children’s and Adolescent Literature

Author(s): Ewa Hendryk
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, German Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: new media; internet as a literary theme; children’s and adolescent literature

Summary/Abstract: Using the services provided by the Internet such as e-mail, social media, instant messengers or online games became unavoidable and irreversible phenomenon of the modern world. These media are one of the most attractive types of entertainment and spending free time. This is the main reason why media appears more often as the theme in the modern children’s and adolescent literature. Main goal of this paper is to point out how the Internet impacts on issues, plot line and creation of the represented world and characters in the children’s and adolescent literature. The very important question is – how the interpenetrate of the real and virtual world influences on literary fiction and composition.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 26
  • Page Range: 75-89
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: German