From Text to ‘Tactile Text’: The Media Transformation and Aesthetic Shift of Traditional Literary Narrative by Micro-Short Dramas

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10.2991/978-2-38476-611-6_107How to use a DOI?

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Micro-short dramas; Tactile text; Media transformation; Literary narrative; Aesthetic shift

Abstract

With the evolution of media technology and the popularization of short video platforms, micro-dramas, as a highly condensed and sensory-driven narrative form, have a profound influence on the communication and aesthetic reception of traditional literary texts, and the media change from “readable text” to “tactile text” is being produced. This paper takes an interdisciplinary perspective of media anthropology and narratology as the basic perspective, and draws on existing research results of literary adaptation and theory of sensory culture, and proposes a three-dimensional, intertwined analytical framework of “narrative reconstruction-sensory evocation-platform mechanism”. This framework attempts to explore how micro-dramas through a fragmented rhythm, sensory camera language and emotional resonance mechanism of immediate reproduction, reshape traditional literary narrative structure, character construction and emotional duration. Unlike the previous approach to literary adaptation as “text transfer”, this paper stresses that in the mobile media environment, literary narratives can not only be “told”, but also be “experienced”. The production of textual meaning is no longer dependent on the gradual process of linguistic logic, but is based on the immediate sensory reaction and the embedding of bodily experience. The “tactile texts” constructed by micro-dramas are dissolving linear time, deep narrative structure and psychology in traditional literature, and instead emphasize a logic of sensory pleasure based on the flow of emotion, thus forming a new model of the aesthetics of modern media.

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AU  - Xin Ji
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/07
TI  - From Text to ‘Tactile Text’: The Media Transformation and Aesthetic Shift of Traditional Literary Narrative by Micro-Short Dramas
BT  - Proceedings of the 2026 12th International Conference on Digital Humanities and Frontiers in Social Sciences (DHFSS 2026)
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