Brooke,+C.G.+Joseph+Janangelo+and+the+Analogics+of+New+Media

=Brooke, C.G. "Joseph Janangelo and the Analogics of New Media."= //College Composition and Communication// Dec 2007: 288-298. Web.

=Abstract= No abstract

=Argument= Brooke reflects on Janangelo’s essay “Joseph Cornell and the Artistry of Composing Persuasive Hypertexts,” though written in 1998, as a point which marks a turn in the field of studying new media. Janangelo wrote his essay because he received student hypertext work that did not show any understanding of the material he had assigned. Janangelo then asked the question: how can hypertext be persuasive? Janangelo, Brooke claims, argues that hypertexts can potentially be more persuasive than traditional essays.

Brooke argues that Janangelo’s argument shows aspects of both analogy and allegory. Brooke adopts Stafford’s viewing of analogy and allegory, in which analogy focuses on connections while allegory focuses on disconnections. Janangelo’s essay poses a “participatory analogy” in which juxtapositions are used to show similarities between things. In Janangelo’s essay, persuasion “provides a mode of thought” that connects his students’ work and the art of Joseph Cornell, who had created collage boxes.

Brooke offers one critique of Janagelo’s essay, observing that Janagelo should not include allegory in his work, as Sirc has rejected the allegorical view of Cornell’s boxes in writing.

=Key Passages= "I would like to suggest that Janangelo's essay marks a turning point in our field's study of technology, a turn toward the articulation of what we now describe as 'new media' " (289).

"Janangelo's essay marks a shift...a turn that may appear incomplete at times or even quaint with its concern over hypertext, but a turn nonetheless" (297).

=Selected Works Cited= Janangelo, Joseph. "Joseph Cornell and the Artistry of Composing Persuasive Hypertexts" //College Communication and Composition// 49.1 1998. 24-44.

Stafford, Barbara. //Visual Analogy Consciousness as the Art of Connectivity.// Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.