Davidson College Fall 2018
Are we really suffering? Are We Addicted? I know for sure that I am not the only one that has had this feeling before, but are we actually suffering from this condition? NPR wrote an article about this relatively new phenomenon that is occuring. In which they are stating that a good number of people […]
The Bachelor and Bachelorette series have arguably become a staple in media and entertainment over the last decade, and the main demographic group that watches is made up of middle-aged women. Bachelor Monday has become a weekly tradition for many households and adding a glass of wine while watching it is almost a must. The shows are not […]
In class, we mentioned the advertisements in Anderson’s Feed, but only briefly discussed the nature of those advertisements. In this post, I want to delve deeper into the kinds of ads Titus and his friends were subject to. Titus describes the feed as knowing “everything you want and hope for, sometimes before you even know […]
In this section of Feed, the main characters lose their feeds and are left without the constant technology that they have grown so accustomed to. Titus is forced to cope with the sudden lack of stimulation in his head by reading the few pages he “cache…
For years now, consumers have wondered how their ads on social media such as Instagram and webpages such as Wikipedia are so tailored to their exact preferences? In the past decade or so, people have begun to believe that giant corporations such as Facebook have been listening to them through their devices and using their […]
The author of the dystopian novel feed, M. T. Anderson, has imagined a society set in the future, of which functioning relies entirely on a technology that connects the human brain to the computer network called feednet. This fictional technology not only makes everyone smart by feeding the brain with any answers the users wish …
