Writing Technology Studies on the Materiality of Literacy Book

I really like this book. When I picked it up, I didn’t think it would have anything to do with my research interests—I like new media studies, but I’ve always been a little skeptical and, honestly, I feel like it’s “not my job.” This is the perfect book for people of my mindframe: people who are wary of Lanham’s enthusiasm, but aren’t complete Luddites. More than just being a very thought-provoking book (I can’t help but connect this with Carr’s The Shallows and Is Google Making Us Stupid?—although perhaps less alarmist), this book demonstrates the style and order of writing I’d love to do: starts with a lot of theoretical nuances, nice humor (138),moves through well-designed and eclectic studies (experiments and textual coding and discourse analysis), creates opposition (but not antagonism) with traditional sources… this is just paragon of what composition studies should look like. I would love to see Haas looking at the other side of literacy—how we read—with the proliferation of Kindles, hyperlinks and “comment” features.