Internet Literature in Arabic: A Case Study of Arabic Short Stories in An-Naba Newspaper, Iraq

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume VI, Issue I, January 2022 | ISSN 2454–6186

Islamic Internet Literature in Arabic: A Case Study of Arabic Short Stories in An-Naba Newspaper, Iraq

Gita Amanda Alfitria, Maman Lesmana
Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia

Abstract: This research discussed about how the forms and content of Arabic short stories on An-naba Arabic newspaper. The purpose of this research to explain form and content and differentiate the short stories out of internet and to short stories which published in print and knowing the characteristic of online literature especially Arabic short stories which are published in An-naba Arabic newspaper. This research uses descriptive qualitative research methods, literature study and content analysis methods and using hypertext theory by Theodore H. Nelson. The results of this research that form of these arabic short stories similar to short stories which published in print while the content of these stories shortest than stories published in print and the sequel of this stories in the Arabic short stories looked like continuing

Keyword: Online literature, Arabic short stories, An-naba newspaper, Iraq

I. INTRODUCTION

Talking about internet literature is certainly inseparable from advances in the field of technology. Quoted from Lenze (2012) the term internet literature emerged in 1960 in Europe and the US, then followed by hypertext literature. Meanwhile, there is another opinion according to Cogburn in cyberspace and social media (Acharya, 2016) that the term internet literature originated from the term cyberspace which appeared around 1980 in science fiction, then in the 1990s in popular culture. Initially the term cyberspace referred to all online spaces that use the internet, through fixed and mobile communication networks including the World Wide Web and all popular social media and other applications that use these devices. Furthermore, people around the world use cyberspace for social, political and economic purposes including in disseminating literary works
Jamal D. Rahman (in Wicaksono, 2017) argues that distributing literature in a medium, where literary works are distributed, can be ascertained that each media determines the form and tendency of the literary work itself. So that the emergence of terms such as internet literature, magazines and newspapers. However, the term is more of an “identity politics” in the discussion of the literary world. The term cannot be said permanently except only as a differentiator. So that these terms are more to the judgment of the reader. Thus, a good literary work depends on the judgment of the reader of the literary work itself, not carefully drawn conclusions or used as comparisons.

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