Between Verses and Feeds: Literary Connection versus Algorithmic Disruption in Human Relationship

Abstract

Literature has historically served as a connective medium, offering shared cultural texts through which individuals interpret love, intimacy, and identity. Poetry, in particular, mediates contradictions by holding multiple truths within a single frame. In contrast, twenty-first-century social media platforms, governed by algorithmic personalization, disrupt this shared interpretive space. Self-proclaimed psychologists and gendered content streams deliver contradictory relationship advice to male and female audiences, fragmenting relational norms. This article contrasts the permanence and universality of literary traditions with the volatility and segmentation of algorithmic feeds. Drawing on literary analysis, media theory, and cultural studies, it argues that literature’s connective ethos can inform digital discourse reforms by embedding multiplicity, transparency, and cross-perspective exposure into relationship content delivery. By juxtaposing canonical texts with observed digital advice ecosystems, the study highlights how literature’s enduring pluralism offers a model for mitigating algorithmic disruption. In doing so, it contributes to ongoing debates in literary studies, digital culture, and gendered media research.