Does literature still possess enough recognition to influence the masses?
when has it ever
f off plenis
>>7625557
It never had.
research results are reported in literary form so tremendously yes
>>7625576
>research results
>masses
pick one
>>7625588
got 'em
>>7625557
>Masses
No
>Elites
yes
>So
Yes
>>7625576
>research papers are literature
>news articles summarizing research papers are literature
u wot?
>>7625588
do you see those adverts on facebook? on google?
do you go to doctors?
do you use any form of technology?
>>7625598
ya they are so is reddit and 4chan and facebook and everything else written prosaically
scientific prose is prose
>>7625601
something being available doesn't mean the masses use it, besides
adverts is not literature
FB is not literature
google is not fucking literature even if it does help you with your homework
my doctor is not a fucking book
technology is not literature
>>7625607
Learn when to use a fucking comma, dumb faggot
>>>/Reddit/
>>7625609
all of those are created from research retard how do you think they design ads and develop meds and create car tyres
>>7625614
lol you are so fucking stupid
>>7625622
ya it is
>>7625629
so is 4chan desu
even look at the latest trends on social media with the hook titles and the literary tricks that get people to click and read their garbage its all related to literature like basically pretty much literary forms are a huge part of internet media which is the most influential form of media right now in real life
>>7625632
>literature
Replace that with 'mass communication' and you'll be spot on.
>>7625631
4chan -- like all social media but particularly moreso on account of the posts -- is very much literature its pomo as fug like its just hundreds of millions of fragments of information thats only related through a culture and that paints a caricature of each boards like basically every board is full of unnamed unreliable narrators talking with each other forever how is it not literature
>>7625639
ya but mass communication can be literary and in this case it is