About This Review

This blog is a final project for LIS 201: The Information Society. This course was taught at UW-Madison during the Fall 2013 semester by Dr. Greg Downey. The goal of this project was to create a Multimedia Book Review for a book that pertained to "The Information Society". With the technological advances that society has made in the last fifty years, we are truly witness to the birth of a "network society". The colossal amount of data that is flowing through the internet at a given moment is truly remarkable, and the ways that information technologies such as the internet are changing society is the focus of a great deal of social research.




In Feed, M. T. Anderson explores these questions as he describes the American culture's decline to a hypothetical, futuristic society that is focused solely around this networked connection. He illustrates themes that we see in society today such as consumerism, corporate power, and poor, anthropocentric environmental treatment. These same themes were discussed by Professor Downey throughout the course of LIS 201, and this novel provides a great supplement to the course material.