Application Technology: Literary Medium through Smartphone

Rosnidar Ain

doi:10.6007/ijarbss/v9-i8/6232

Abstract

Technology enables various tasks and situations to become easier, faster and they reach wider network as well. It also makes impossible things materialize and become a reality. Now, technology has infiltrated every nook and cranny of a human’s life. In the past, it was believed that literature could not be adapted to technology. Nevertheless, technology is required to create a wider space, in a faster and easier method in order to propel literature into greater heights. Slowly, the older way of appreciating literature is no longer suitable to be kept for a prolonged duration of time. With the emergence of smartphones, numerous applications are developed to ease a poet or an author in their quest to produce literary materials in the form of the latest literature. This study will discuss the use of smart phones’ applications which serve the authors in the process of producing poems or short stories

Highlights

Malaysia has its own esteemed prolific authors and poets who have garnered highest accolades in the field of literary writing
This study focuses on the benefits of applications in smartphones which are related to literature to provide knowledge and alternative ideas to authors in their efforts to produce digital-based literary work
This study, is considered as crucial since it fills in the gap in digital literature research of which most efforts are focused on creative processes through the use of specific mediums : in this case, studies revolve around providing information to the users on the availability of applications for creative writing materials in smartphones

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Rosnidar Ain

In-Text Citation: (Ain, 2019) To Cite this Article: Ain, R. Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 9(8), 163–172. Vol 9, No 8, 2019, Pg. 163 - 172 http://hrmars.com/index.php/pages/detail/IJARBSS

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