Janangelo.+Review+of+Rethinking+Style+and+Reversing+Hierarchies

=Janangelo, Joseph. REVIEW: "Rethinking Style and Reversing Hierarchies."= //College English.// 69, No.5 (2007). Web. 29 October 2011.

**Abstract**
Reviewed is The Economics of {Attention}: Style and Substance in the Age of Information by Richard A. Lanham.

Argument
Janangelo discusses Lanham's book //The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Informationthat// and alo gives his own opinions on the way that the internet is changing our education. Internet as a medium has to grab the viewers attention through visual and aural magnets. As a culture we have become very accustomed to many of our senses being stimulated, so when viewing a web page we need to do two things: We look at it to appreciate its style and we look through it to discern its meaning.

Janangelo argues that if more and more classes were to be taught online the teacher could not just reuse the same material year after year. Teachers must still find a way to engage with students and lead to new arguments. If no new arguments are made throughout the years then the class can not be helpful because it must change in order to give a better understanding of the world.

Key Passages
"Contemporary reading experience embraces, and often expects, the presence of voice, gesture, and soundtrack" (527).

"The author has offered us many intriguing clues that we might use to form a viable and valuable digital future. It remains for students, teachers, and writing program administrators to work at, and through, the details" (531).

**Selected Works Cited**
Butler, Judith P. //Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex.”// New York: Routledge, 1993.

Lanham, Richard A. //The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts.// Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.

Sontag, Susan. //Against Interpretation and Other Essays//. New York: Farrar, 1966.