How the Internet made digital media more popular than print media?

Know how to Internet make digital media more popular than print media?

In the last three decades, the invention of computers, the Internet and smartphones has brought about a lot of changes in people's lives. That change is seen everywhere in the quality of life or the study of books. We have various means of expressing literary works.

After Facebook entered social media in 2009, a number of new writers started writing poems, stories, articles, especially their own experiences in Assamese language and publishing them on social media. All this is made possible by the promising efforts of some Assamese language lovers to make the Assamese language computer-understandable through Unicode. Wikipedia is a website that provides detailed descriptions of famous people or historical places in Assam. Google Translator will include Assamese in 2022 due to the widespread promotion of Assamese language online. From here, you will be able to view all the literature written in Unicode in Assamese language in any language abroad today. Continuous efforts are being made to translate every synonym of the Assamese language into English. No government or non-governmental organization can claim credit for all this work done online. 

Two decades ago, there was only one medium to bring creative works like stories, poems, novels, articles etc. written in Assamese language to the readers – through newspapers, magazines and books in the print media. Articles can now be sent to readers through Facebook, blogs, web-pages, Kigul or audio books. As soon as the author publishes it online, the work goes to the reader. Readers can express their reactions immediately after reading. I have seen the connection between writers and readers become stronger in online media. There are many writers who have established themselves through popular Facebook groups like 'Assamese Talk', 'Granth Subas', 'Ardhaakash' etc. Popular magazines like Sahitya.org, Kanya Yug etc. are being published online. These works of authors are being published immediately at very low cost and often free of charge through e-books or digital publishing. Abroad, every book is published in two mediums - print in book form and 'regular' in digital form. Digital media has become very popular as it costs several times less than print media. E-books are also available in digital media in Assamese. Smartphones are in the hands of every educated person today. If you can read the articles on your mobile, you will certainly not want to buy a printed book at a higher price. This advancement in technology has led to a decline in book sales. The author may not be interested in publishing books in print in the future.

Apart from the new writings of the authors, all the literature and magazines of fifty years ago are now being safely stored on computer servers with the help of digital scanners. The Nanda Talukdar Foundation has launched a website www.assamarchive.org to provide digital access to all the magazines published in Assamese from the first Assamese newspaper 'Arunodoi' to Ramdhenu in Many old and rare books published in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are made available on the website. Similarly, rare books of world literature are carefully preserved in digital libraries today. I have often had the opportunity to read these books from anywhere without spending a single rupee. Therefore, it is not necessary to think that the sale of books has decreased. Literature is and will continue to be practiced online. Only the medium of literature has changed from print to digital. Therefore, every literary enthusiast needs to be able to acquire digital literacy to practice literature in new media. Everyone must be able to read and write in Unicode. The literary world today has benefited greatly from the application of artificial intelligence. Computers have mastered language through nasal language questions and voice recognition. Language will no longer be a wall between us today. An Assamese text will be translated into any language in seconds. Therefore, we will be able to read literature in any language in our own language.

Writing in Unicode on a computer makes it much easier to edit. There are many apps out there these days that show you the wrong spellings, as well as the correct form. The app can also show errors in the noun rule, s rule, and semicolon errors. About 90% of grammar mistakes can be corrected in digital media. A couple of Assamese dictionaries are also available online. Several apps have been able to plot the story that the author wants. Information for articles is easily available online. There are even apps that can predict how readers will react to an author's new article. Artificial intelligence can also tell if the article has room for improvement. The author is also able to point out new trends in literature.

The most important question today is whether the excessive use of computers and artificial intelligence can disrupt the original work of writers.