Postdigital Aesthetics and the Future of Literary Narratives in Generative Media
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.64137/XXXXXXXX/IJLLH-V1I1P102Keywords:
Postdigital aesthetics, Generative media, Literary narratives, AI storytelling, Narrative theory, Machine-generated literature, GPT, Computational creativity, Narrative mappingAbstract
The blistering development of digital technologies and artificial intelligence has changed literary creativity to a considerable extent, and this change is associated with the rise of generative media. In this paper, the implications of the postdigital aesthetic intersecting with the literary narrative in the age of generative media are explored. Within the postdigital paradigm of distorted digital and analogue boundaries, the established forms of literature are criticised through machine-written texts, interactive narratives and multimedia combinations. The paper will include an extended literature review of the theoretical frameworks involved in postdigital aesthetics, discuss the changing narrative forms made possible through generative models like GPT models, and suggest a methodological framework for analysing machine-human co-authored texts. The study will help to establish a connection between literary theory and computational creativity with the help of qualitative and computational analysis, thematic modeling, and mapping of narrative arcs. The results suggest that postdigital aesthetics expand storytelling possibilities; however, at the same time, they require frameworks of authorship, interpretation, and reader interaction. We end by discussing the implications this has on literary theory, authorship and education in the future
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