Author : Javid ahmad reshi
Keyword : Literary classics, typography, twitter, social media
Subject : Arts and humanities
Article Type : Original article (research)
DOI : 10.21659/mejo21.v8n3
Article QR Code
Article File : Full Text PDF
Abstract : From the orally transmitted folk tales to the typographical world made possible by the invention of printing press, to the emergence of modern technocratic world dominated by the social media giants like Twitter, there have been some major paradigm shifts that have redirected the course of human thinking. The advent of writing receded the orality to the background, the advent of typography diminished the writing culture,the arrival of T.V, Telegraph, Internet, social media has rendered the centuries old print culture irrelevant by creating a new epistemology. By using the theoretical framework of ‘media ecology theory’, this paper argues that the latest medium of production of knowledge, dominated by social media, is accompanied by an unprecedented superficiality, ‘information glut’ and attention-deficit which has significantly affected the physical and psychological wellbeing of people. It seeks to analyse and reinforce the significance of literary classics as an alternative source/medium, repository of age-old wisdom which inculcates the habit of thinking among people in an otherwise consumer-oriented capitalist world deprived of freedom to think.
Article by : Dr Javid Ahmad Reshi
Article add date : 2024-01-02
How to cite : Javid ahmad reshi. (2024-January-02). Literary classics in the age of 280 characters: a shift from the age of typography to tv and twitter. retrieved from https://www.openacessjournal.com/abstract/1462