Digitising the world: globalisation and digital literature Miriam Llamas Ó Akade ´miai Kiado ´, Budapest, Hungary 2014 Abstract The focus of this study is to establish the aesthetic strategies related to globalisation that appear in digital literature in order to evaluate their possible classification as World Literature. This study proposes a conceptualisation for studying globalisation as a transcultural phenomenon based on theoretical devel- opments of phenomenology, hermeneutics and social practices, including a classi- fication of ways to address the links between digital literature and globalisation that appear in the texts considered here. The analyses of texts in different languages allow a wide and comparatistic approach, although a close reading of the German/ English text Worldwatchers will provide more detailed types of strategies for the expression of globalisation through digital literature. Keywords Netliterature Á Digital literature Á World literature Á Globalisation Á (German literature Á Spanish literature) It has been now more than two decades since the internet began its transformation to become a mass medium that is an integral part of the daily life of a large segment of the world’s population. Since then, we have unceasingly conversed about technological globalisation and the digital revolution. These discourses have also reached literary studies, but have they appeared in literature? To what degree have not only the discourses, but also the phenomena of globalisation and the internet affected contemporary literature? Is literature contributing, in turn, to moulding the discourses and imaginaries regarding globalisation and the internet? Finally, if globalisation phenomena, such as the mass distribution of the internet, affect interactions with the world and intersubjective communication, we can then ask M. Llamas (&) Departamento de Filologı ´a Alemana, D/2-343 Facultad de Filologı ´a, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain e-mail: mllamasu@ucm.es 123 Neohelicon DOI 10.1007/s11059-014-0261-x