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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2018.16.1.343

Digital Culture and the Utility of Poetry in a Convergence Age  

Seo, Hae Ryen (Dept. of English Education, Woosuk University)
Kim, Kyoung Soon (Dept. of Global Language and Culture, Woosuk University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.16, no.1, 2018 , pp. 343-350 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to explore the characteristics of a digital culture, its negative effects, especially automatism of perception, a poetic strategy against automatism of perception and the utility of poetry including the therapeutic function of poetry. The new technologies offer us various experience, great opportunities and rosy future by freeing us from boring and laborious tasks, and difficult decisions. Through the excessive and habitual use of new technologies, we may become too dependent on machines, losing our thinking abilities, sensibility, perception and creativity. Therefore, we need poetry to recover the sensation of life and make us feel things. Reading poetry allows us to look into someone else's soul and cultivate the ability to empathize. As a healing fountain, poetry leads us to a way for a change of heart, a recovery of psychic health and universal love through perfect communion in ourselves and in society. Furthermore we need a systematic and in-depth study of digital poetry as well as traditional poetry.
Keywords
Convergence age; Automatism of perception; Unfamiliar; Cathartic release; Therapeutic function;
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