The 20thcentury great changes caused by the introduction and growth of electronic media make the present day even more worthy of a “globalizing age”. The “Cyber Space” offers a brief glimpse at the enormous influence of electronic media, especially internet, on social life, and people’s mode of thinking and emotion. Therefore, close attention must be paid to the great impact of electronic media and internet on literature and art in this globalizing day. Studies of literature and art and aesthetics should accept the extensive and profound changes in whole society brought about by the great impact of electronic media so as to investigate and adapt to these changes and tendencies and make proper theoretical readjustments.

electronic media; literature; art; aesthetics