Gadgets and digital communication themes in new media short stories

Abstract

Today’s society understand that text can be transferred to new media forms with the help of the Internet such as e-books, blogs, and social media. They can download as many digital reading materials as they need, and these methods prove to be more reader-friendly, inexpensive, fast and easy as they no longer have to carry the burden of carrying heavy physical books anywhere. The ability of digital communication using the internet to commercialize a particular services or sales in a quick, easy and affordable way has made this as important issue to discuss. The importance of using a variety of gadgets as well as the effectiveness of digital communications dominating as a theme of new media of short stories in HSKU 2017. The question is how do the writer digest, mix and elevating the importance of the gadgets and digital communication themes in the new media of short stories to appeal and show their strengths? In this regard, this paper is to analyze the new media of short stories that won the Hadiah Sastera Kumpulan Utusan (HSKU) 2017 based on the Global of Literary Aesthetics Theory. This theory examines the expression and experience of the readers, aspects of the aesthetic emanating from the language used by the authors, the construction of work structures and the contextual aspects revealed by the authors in the new media of short stories. The findings show that the six new media of short stories briefly raise the theme of the importance of gadget diversity and digital communications themes. Inevitably, the new media short stories HSKU 2017 emphasizing the impact and benefits of using gadgets and digital communications. Even though the theme adopted by the authors are urban, nevertheless without fail, the aesthetic aspect of global literature is still maintains.