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I have added an infobox-- Geracudd 23:32, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Last sentence of the first paragraph makes no sense. —Preceding
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Defining the words or phrases used in Feed:
Boyf = boyfriend
Chat = communicating without talking - simply using one's brain to communicate. Like texting or IM-ing without a phone or computer.
Unit = Person, slang such as "man" or "dude"
"da da da" = blah blah blah
meg = Totally or really
brag = something that is really cool or "hip"
feednet =
Equivalent to the internet
skeeze =
To hit upon, or flirt with someone
Halt-N-Buy =
A store
Youch = Good looking
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.57.111.91 ( talk) 01:01, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.21.92.239 ( talk) 16:04, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
I plan on editing and improving this site. Here are the sources that I plan on using so far:
Adams, Lauren. "M. T. Anderson Feed." The Horn Book Magazine 78.5 (2002): 564+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 5 Mar. 2012.
Blasingame, James. "Feed." Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 47.1 (2003): 88+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 5 Mar. 2012.
Blasingame, James. “An Interview with M. T. (Tobin) Anderson.” Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 47.1 (Sept 2003): 98-98. JSTOR. Web. 5 March 2012.
Bradford, Clare. “Everything Must Go: Consumerism and Reader Positioning in M.T. Anderson’s Feed.” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 2.2 (2010): 137+. Project MUSE. Web. 5 March 2012.
Bullen, Elizabeth, & Parsons, Elizabeth. “Dystopian Visions of Global Capitalism: Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines and M. T. Anderson’s Feed.” Children’s Literature in Education 38.2 (June 2007): 127-139. EBSCOHOST. Web. 5 March 2012.
Davidson, Jenny. "Slave to Science." The New York Times Book Review 12 Nov. 2006: 42(L). Literature Resource Center. Web. 5 Mar. 2012.
Goodson, Todd. “A Pinch of Tobacco and a Drop of Urine: Using Young Adult Literature to Examine Local Culture, Using Local Culture to Enrich Schools: An ALAN Grant Research Project.” The ALAN Review 32.1 (2004): 50-55. Google Scholar. Web. 5 March 2012.
Kerr, Lisa. “Frankenstein’s Children: Ethics, Experimentation, and Free Will in Futuristic Young Adult Fiction.” The ALAN Review 36. 3 (2009): 28-34. Google Scholar. Web. 5 March 2012.
Ventura, Abbie. “Predicting a Better Situation? Three Young Adult Speculative Fiction Texts and the Possibilities for Social Change.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 36.1 (2011): 101+. Project MUSE. Web. 5 March 2012.
Zipes, Jack. “Why Fantasy Matters Too Much.” The Journal of Aesthetic Education 43.2 (2009): 77-89. Project MUSE. Web. 5 March 2012.
Grapefr00t ( talk) 18:33, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
A work in progress, but these are some of the edits I am considering for this page. The most concerning area to me is the cultural reference section as it has only two little bits of information. I want to add to that and add some sub sections in that area.
Grapefr00t ( talk)
User:LoversSpat So far, I like what I see. The introduction to the page is very informative and the although the plot is a little long, it's very detailed and ensures that the editor (you!) knows this book. However, I feel like a wikipedia article shouldn't be citing actual page numbers and quotes (On page 77...) because that seems more of an essay style of writing rather than an encylopedia I agree with Grapefr00t and advise you to be very wary of long lists! LoversSpat ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:25, 9 April 2012 (UTC).
I agree with the plot section being a little lengthy. It leaves little to the imagination of anyone interested in reading the novel. Keep some of the high points and just focus on getting the point of the novel across. Your plans for the article look solid and should make for great revisions. Thanks! Dmbfan85 ( talk) 20:54, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Be sure to add material based on your research! The heart of this assignment is learning how to succinctly summarize others' work. Wadewitz ( talk) 13:50, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
There should be a separate section for the awards of this book. The book's prizes and awards currently reside awkwardly in the 'Authority' section, which is definitely not where they belong. Yea55 ( talk) 17:17, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
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The article "Feed" seems to focus heavily on plot summary. Even the introduction summarizes, without using any references, and without mentioning the significance of the novel. The introduction and the overall article seem unbalanced because they do not include many scholarly references. The Talk page contains a section called "Upcoming Edits" which Grapefr00t added in 2012. It contains many scholarly journal articles, but the View History seems to show that none of them ever were added. The page seems out-of-date because no one has updated it significantly, few references exist, and its imbalance seems due to bland plot summary without any scholarly or contemporary context.-- Ncanty ( talk) 17:39, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
There are some viewpoints that are underrepresented and overrepresented in this article. Under the "Themes" section, there is a lot of information on Consumerism whereas Language and Authority are briefly discussed. It would be better to have all the themes mentioned be represented more equally and to include more themes that seem to be missing as of now. If too little information from reliable sources is found on one theme, then maybe it would be best to not include it so that the article will stay neutral rather than lead towards a biased opinion of what themes exist in Feed. -- Amentis16 ( talk) 21:53, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
I was confused that the last two comments made on the Talk page before our class's comments, the External Links Modified sections, were made by an Internet Archive Bot. What is an archive bot and how are bots editing articles on Wikipedia? I thought only real people could do that. Ctweeten ( talk) 02:34, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Th article relies heavily on plot summary, but this summary seems to be missing some information and assume the reader has read the book. For instance, it is not until the character's section that locations like the moon and "The Rumble Spot" are mentioned. Perhaps these could be mentioned earlier in an additional section on locations in the book. Travel to the moon could be included in the Context section. Haykim ( talk) 19:38, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
The article lacks some neutrality in the section entitled "Style". While there are some scholarly sources, the language used is biased and not necessarily accurately supported by evidence. In addition, there are edits that need to be made to remove unnecessary information. For example, the character description for Titus includes a haphazard phrase at the end telling readers what he was designed to look like. This may be helpful in another Wikipedia article about the inspiration for M.T Anderson's Feed however in this article it is a distraction. The descriptions for the characters are underdeveloped and detract from the article rather than add to it. If a character section is included the descriptions should have more fleshed out detail that creates a full picture of the character.
Lkobus (
talk) 21:20, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
I thought that some of the links within the article were distracting and unnecessary. For example, the link for "cloud" literally lead to a page about clouds, which is something that is a little too obvious to be needed. Also, I found that the link to "gated community" led to a page about condominiums, which would be misleading for the reader. Some of the links seemed useful, but others just seemed irrelevant or like they were done just so someone could say they inserted a link somewhere. It was kind of funny, but I could also see where it could get confusing/overwhelming to some users. JClanton12 ( talk) 03:01, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
The overview, plot, synopsis, and authority sections do not have any reference links. I recommend adding sources to support these sections in order to avoid bias. The plot and synopsis sections seem to drive the article, but these sections can be perceived as personal opinion without any references. The authority section also seems like personal opinion without citations.
Also, The link for citation 12 does not work; when I click on it, it says "Page not found." The links for citations 9-11 work though.
-- AshMillette ( talk) 18:08, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
I feel like the sources being used while doing a good job of aiding the article, they do need to be linked to as well. This makes it easier to find them as sometimes a simple google search will not have the article appear as easily. Also, a wider variety of sources would help create a more reliable article that is more credible. Lhovey2 ( talk) 21:02, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Is everything relevant?:
I felt like almost everything was relevant to the article and I didn't feel it straying from the topic that much but it did have times where is didn't seem to stay true to just the story. It didn't detract from the article too much. It was simple and straightforward but I felt that for the most part it there is room for it to be improved and perhaps tailor it a lot more to to the story itself. I would have wanted a lot more info and I felt that a lot of Wiki pages make you feel like the world of the book or show or movie and this just felt like it wasn't detailed enough to give someone a real picture of what is going on in the story itself. I was a little distracted though by some of the language and felt that a lot of it wasn't as encyclopedic as it could have been.
````Ivana Mileusnic
I feel in the Wikipedia, it talks the characters more in details. We only focus on those main characters in our class. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RX782FA ( talk • contribs) 16:43, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
What about The Feed by Nick Clark Windo (2018) is surprisingly similar by having people´s brains directly connected to a network and having hackers messing with memories, what about the legal issues, how can two novels have so much similarities and still there be an Amazon prime series from the second novel, does anyone know what's the story behind Clark Windo novel having been published despite those similarities? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.216.94.171 ( talk) 15:59, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
I got to this page via Amazon Prime and the movie "Landscape of the Invisible Hand." I have never read Feed and I was wondering why it sounded familiar This sounds similar to "Pretties" - the second book by Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series. "The premise of the novel relies on a future set in a future dystopian world in which everyone is turned "Pretty" by extreme cosmetic surgery upon reaching age 16" where "rebels against society's enforced conformity in hopes of exposing the societies dangerous obsessions with perfection and uniformity." Pretties
Unfortunately, I had never heard of this novel and it's been out since 2002. Sabinal17 ( talk) 22:38, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
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I have added an infobox-- Geracudd 23:32, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Last sentence of the first paragraph makes no sense. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
174.96.143.120 (
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This article is the subject of an educational assignment at Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis supported by the Wikipedia Ambassador Program during the 2011 Q3 term. Further details are available on the course page.
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Defining the words or phrases used in Feed:
Boyf = boyfriend
Chat = communicating without talking - simply using one's brain to communicate. Like texting or IM-ing without a phone or computer.
Unit = Person, slang such as "man" or "dude"
"da da da" = blah blah blah
meg = Totally or really
brag = something that is really cool or "hip"
feednet =
Equivalent to the internet
skeeze =
To hit upon, or flirt with someone
Halt-N-Buy =
A store
Youch = Good looking
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.57.111.91 ( talk) 01:01, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.21.92.239 ( talk) 16:04, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
I plan on editing and improving this site. Here are the sources that I plan on using so far:
Adams, Lauren. "M. T. Anderson Feed." The Horn Book Magazine 78.5 (2002): 564+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 5 Mar. 2012.
Blasingame, James. "Feed." Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 47.1 (2003): 88+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 5 Mar. 2012.
Blasingame, James. “An Interview with M. T. (Tobin) Anderson.” Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 47.1 (Sept 2003): 98-98. JSTOR. Web. 5 March 2012.
Bradford, Clare. “Everything Must Go: Consumerism and Reader Positioning in M.T. Anderson’s Feed.” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 2.2 (2010): 137+. Project MUSE. Web. 5 March 2012.
Bullen, Elizabeth, & Parsons, Elizabeth. “Dystopian Visions of Global Capitalism: Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines and M. T. Anderson’s Feed.” Children’s Literature in Education 38.2 (June 2007): 127-139. EBSCOHOST. Web. 5 March 2012.
Davidson, Jenny. "Slave to Science." The New York Times Book Review 12 Nov. 2006: 42(L). Literature Resource Center. Web. 5 Mar. 2012.
Goodson, Todd. “A Pinch of Tobacco and a Drop of Urine: Using Young Adult Literature to Examine Local Culture, Using Local Culture to Enrich Schools: An ALAN Grant Research Project.” The ALAN Review 32.1 (2004): 50-55. Google Scholar. Web. 5 March 2012.
Kerr, Lisa. “Frankenstein’s Children: Ethics, Experimentation, and Free Will in Futuristic Young Adult Fiction.” The ALAN Review 36. 3 (2009): 28-34. Google Scholar. Web. 5 March 2012.
Ventura, Abbie. “Predicting a Better Situation? Three Young Adult Speculative Fiction Texts and the Possibilities for Social Change.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 36.1 (2011): 101+. Project MUSE. Web. 5 March 2012.
Zipes, Jack. “Why Fantasy Matters Too Much.” The Journal of Aesthetic Education 43.2 (2009): 77-89. Project MUSE. Web. 5 March 2012.
Grapefr00t ( talk) 18:33, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
A work in progress, but these are some of the edits I am considering for this page. The most concerning area to me is the cultural reference section as it has only two little bits of information. I want to add to that and add some sub sections in that area.
Grapefr00t ( talk)
User:LoversSpat So far, I like what I see. The introduction to the page is very informative and the although the plot is a little long, it's very detailed and ensures that the editor (you!) knows this book. However, I feel like a wikipedia article shouldn't be citing actual page numbers and quotes (On page 77...) because that seems more of an essay style of writing rather than an encylopedia I agree with Grapefr00t and advise you to be very wary of long lists! LoversSpat ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:25, 9 April 2012 (UTC).
I agree with the plot section being a little lengthy. It leaves little to the imagination of anyone interested in reading the novel. Keep some of the high points and just focus on getting the point of the novel across. Your plans for the article look solid and should make for great revisions. Thanks! Dmbfan85 ( talk) 20:54, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Be sure to add material based on your research! The heart of this assignment is learning how to succinctly summarize others' work. Wadewitz ( talk) 13:50, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
There should be a separate section for the awards of this book. The book's prizes and awards currently reside awkwardly in the 'Authority' section, which is definitely not where they belong. Yea55 ( talk) 17:17, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
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The article "Feed" seems to focus heavily on plot summary. Even the introduction summarizes, without using any references, and without mentioning the significance of the novel. The introduction and the overall article seem unbalanced because they do not include many scholarly references. The Talk page contains a section called "Upcoming Edits" which Grapefr00t added in 2012. It contains many scholarly journal articles, but the View History seems to show that none of them ever were added. The page seems out-of-date because no one has updated it significantly, few references exist, and its imbalance seems due to bland plot summary without any scholarly or contemporary context.-- Ncanty ( talk) 17:39, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
There are some viewpoints that are underrepresented and overrepresented in this article. Under the "Themes" section, there is a lot of information on Consumerism whereas Language and Authority are briefly discussed. It would be better to have all the themes mentioned be represented more equally and to include more themes that seem to be missing as of now. If too little information from reliable sources is found on one theme, then maybe it would be best to not include it so that the article will stay neutral rather than lead towards a biased opinion of what themes exist in Feed. -- Amentis16 ( talk) 21:53, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
I was confused that the last two comments made on the Talk page before our class's comments, the External Links Modified sections, were made by an Internet Archive Bot. What is an archive bot and how are bots editing articles on Wikipedia? I thought only real people could do that. Ctweeten ( talk) 02:34, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Th article relies heavily on plot summary, but this summary seems to be missing some information and assume the reader has read the book. For instance, it is not until the character's section that locations like the moon and "The Rumble Spot" are mentioned. Perhaps these could be mentioned earlier in an additional section on locations in the book. Travel to the moon could be included in the Context section. Haykim ( talk) 19:38, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
The article lacks some neutrality in the section entitled "Style". While there are some scholarly sources, the language used is biased and not necessarily accurately supported by evidence. In addition, there are edits that need to be made to remove unnecessary information. For example, the character description for Titus includes a haphazard phrase at the end telling readers what he was designed to look like. This may be helpful in another Wikipedia article about the inspiration for M.T Anderson's Feed however in this article it is a distraction. The descriptions for the characters are underdeveloped and detract from the article rather than add to it. If a character section is included the descriptions should have more fleshed out detail that creates a full picture of the character.
Lkobus (
talk) 21:20, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
I thought that some of the links within the article were distracting and unnecessary. For example, the link for "cloud" literally lead to a page about clouds, which is something that is a little too obvious to be needed. Also, I found that the link to "gated community" led to a page about condominiums, which would be misleading for the reader. Some of the links seemed useful, but others just seemed irrelevant or like they were done just so someone could say they inserted a link somewhere. It was kind of funny, but I could also see where it could get confusing/overwhelming to some users. JClanton12 ( talk) 03:01, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
The overview, plot, synopsis, and authority sections do not have any reference links. I recommend adding sources to support these sections in order to avoid bias. The plot and synopsis sections seem to drive the article, but these sections can be perceived as personal opinion without any references. The authority section also seems like personal opinion without citations.
Also, The link for citation 12 does not work; when I click on it, it says "Page not found." The links for citations 9-11 work though.
-- AshMillette ( talk) 18:08, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
I feel like the sources being used while doing a good job of aiding the article, they do need to be linked to as well. This makes it easier to find them as sometimes a simple google search will not have the article appear as easily. Also, a wider variety of sources would help create a more reliable article that is more credible. Lhovey2 ( talk) 21:02, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Is everything relevant?:
I felt like almost everything was relevant to the article and I didn't feel it straying from the topic that much but it did have times where is didn't seem to stay true to just the story. It didn't detract from the article too much. It was simple and straightforward but I felt that for the most part it there is room for it to be improved and perhaps tailor it a lot more to to the story itself. I would have wanted a lot more info and I felt that a lot of Wiki pages make you feel like the world of the book or show or movie and this just felt like it wasn't detailed enough to give someone a real picture of what is going on in the story itself. I was a little distracted though by some of the language and felt that a lot of it wasn't as encyclopedic as it could have been.
````Ivana Mileusnic
I feel in the Wikipedia, it talks the characters more in details. We only focus on those main characters in our class. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RX782FA ( talk • contribs) 16:43, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
What about The Feed by Nick Clark Windo (2018) is surprisingly similar by having people´s brains directly connected to a network and having hackers messing with memories, what about the legal issues, how can two novels have so much similarities and still there be an Amazon prime series from the second novel, does anyone know what's the story behind Clark Windo novel having been published despite those similarities? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.216.94.171 ( talk) 15:59, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
I got to this page via Amazon Prime and the movie "Landscape of the Invisible Hand." I have never read Feed and I was wondering why it sounded familiar This sounds similar to "Pretties" - the second book by Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series. "The premise of the novel relies on a future set in a future dystopian world in which everyone is turned "Pretty" by extreme cosmetic surgery upon reaching age 16" where "rebels against society's enforced conformity in hopes of exposing the societies dangerous obsessions with perfection and uniformity." Pretties
Unfortunately, I had never heard of this novel and it's been out since 2002. Sabinal17 ( talk) 22:38, 12 January 2024 (UTC)