ENTRY 22: Response to the Eletronic Literature

 The ending of the semester is approaching. In this semester we focus on the electronic literature, a genre of literature that we encounter always in our daily life, which I’ve had a further understanding of it through the study in this semester. As for the electronic literature, it has many benefits compared to the print literature. In the class, we’ve brought up several aspects which to evaluate which is a good choice, such as productivity, permanence, ownership, accessibility. Actually in my own choice, I prefer the print literature. In today’s information explosion, it becomes harder for us to digest such large number of information in the internet that we meet with every day and every moment. Different from the electronic literature, the print version can be kept, and also needs buying with money, so that we will consciously read it more carefully and cherish it rather than scanning it without fully understanding. Actually, I really cherish the memory of the days when the computers were not so widespread in China. At that time, the information is not so much, and I can talk a lot with my partners upon one very small topic for a long time. But now, we talk and we switch the topic all the time without fully discussing the previous one as we have lived in an era when we are immersed in the information all the time. As electronic literature is also one kind of online information, so for me, the electronic literature is not as effective as print literature.