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Summer 2009
Feed
by M.T. Anderson
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About the Freshman Summer Reading Program
Each freshman at the College participates in the Summer Reading Program. The purpose of this program is to help orient new students to the Brockport academic community by having a common reading experience with fellow classmates and faculty members. First-year students receive a copy of the book with support materials and additional information about the program in early July.
The summer reading project is a valued experience at The College at Brockport and continues to be part of our involvement in the American Democracy Project for Civic Engagement, a national, multi-campus initiative that seeks to foster informed civic engagement in the United States. The project seeks to create a greater intellectual understanding and commitment to participate in the civic life of the United States. Students will be asked to react to the book during the Welcome Weekend weekend and throughout the semester. They will also take part in discussions, projects and lectures debating noteworthy themes generated by the book.
About Feed
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The Freshman Reading Selection Committee has selected feed by M.T. Anderson for the 2009 Freshman Summer Reading Program. The book describes a future in which most individuals are connected to an Internet–like system via a mechanical devise implanted at an early age into their brains. This “feed” becomes intrinsically connected with physical brain activity allowing people to mentally “chat” with each other, receive advertising pop–ups when they think, see or hear particular cues, and carry out financial transactions. How this new technology/biology affects communication and how a group of young people interact with each other and the world is the backdrop for feed’s plot. The world is awash in corporate greed, environmental hazards, mega-consumerism and dwindling intellectualism.
Feed was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the L.A. Times Book Award for Young Adult fiction in 2003. It was additionally a finalist for the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award. Anderson has also written a number of children’s picture books. For more information about the selection, see http://www.amazon.com/Feed–M–T–Anderson/dp/0763622591
The Freshman Reading Committee selected feed based on criteria that included readability, relevance, multiple disciplinary application, author availability, and civic engagement.
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