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Mid-Semester Eval and Book Suggestion

I think the amount of readings we have is reasonable and the timing for papers and postings fit my schedule perfectly. I wish that we read more novels, however, I have enjoyed the articles we've been assigned. Considering the amount of discussion that goes on, I feel like the class size is kind of large. However, I'm glad that we've figured out how to work together with such a large group. I feel like everyone contributes evenly and there is open discussion both during class and on Serendip, which is possibly my favorite part of class. I like that if a discussion is left unfinished in class, it can continue online. 

I wish that there was more commenting amongst each other's work. We've posted 2 web papers so far and several comments on the discussion thread. I would like to see the discussion thread be more of a discussion.

I learned a good amount by thinking about things I haven't before. I feel like I knew most of everything we learned about concerning gender, but hadn't put enough thought into it and it's relation to technology. Overall, I've really enjoyed the topics we've discussed and I look forward to furthering what we've discussed so far. 

Finally, a book that I would like to suggest for the end of our course is Feed by Matthew Tobin Anderson. The book is of the cyberpunk genre and takes place in the future. It's a dark satire about corporate power, consumerism, and data mining in society. The lives of everyone in this world revolves around advertising. The internet has evolved into the "Feednet", which is a computer network. The brains of American citizens are directly connected to this network with a chip called "Feed", which is often inserted at birth. You can have advertisements show up in your head just like pop-ups in a computer......but yeah, it sounded like it could be an interesting read. 

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