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Analysis and Commentary: The Age of Egocasting
Analysis and Commentary: Personal
Analysis and Commentary: The Machine Stops


Analysis and Commentary:
The Age of Egocasting

Selected References Identified from Text:
(see complete list of references in iTuned In or Out?)
Boom Box, by M. Lewis
New York Times Magazine, August 13, 2000
Early Television Exposure and Subsequent Attentional Problems in Children, by D. A. Christakis, et.al.
Pediatrics, April 2004
Television Addiction in No Mere Metaphor, by R. Kubey and M. Csikszentmihalyi
Scientific American, February 2002
TiVo, ReplayTV Vie for Uncertain Prize, by B. Johnson
Advertising Age, November 4, 2002

Analysis and Commentary:
Personal

Book Reviews: The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce,
Culture and Coolness
His Heart Belongs to (Adorable) iPod, by J. Maslin
New York Times, October 19, 2006
How Did We Ever Live Without the iPod? : A Newsweek Writer Considers How Apple's Digital Music Player Stole Consumer Hearts and Shuffled the Music Industry, by C. Collins
Christian Science Monitor, October 24, 2006
Pet Sounds, by K. Drum
Washington Monthly, November 2006
Playlist is Character, by B. Sisario
New York Times Book Review, December 10, 2006

Selected References from 'Personal' Chapter Notes:
Behind the Music: iPods and Hearing Loss; Some Doctors Raise Concerns That MP3 Players May Cause Damage With Heavy Use,
by Jane Spencer
Wall Street Journal, January 10, 2006
No Dead Air! The iPod and the Culture of Mobile Listening,
by Michael Bull
Leisure Studies, October 2005

Analysis and Commentary:
The Machine Stops

About the Author and His Works: 
E.M. Forster, by F. McDowell
Dictionary of Literary Biography
E.M. Forster - Interview
The Paris Review, Spring 1953

The Machine Stops - Critical Articles:
Images of a Networked Society: E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops”
by M. B. Seabury
Studies in Short Fiction, Winter 1997 

‘IMAGINE, IF YOU CAN’: Love, Time and the Impossibility of Utopia in
E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops”
by P. March-Russell
Critical Survey, v.17 Issue 1, 2005

Five Novels - Five Essays:
Bearing the White Man’s Burden: Misrecognition and Cultural Difference in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India, by T. Christensen
Novel: A Forum On Fiction, Spring 2006

Forster’s Maurice: A Revolution Out of Time, by L. DeSimone
The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, May-June 2007

Merchant-Ivory’s “Howard’s End: A Richly Textured Masterpiece,
by J.Carr  (film review)
Boston Globe, April 24, 1992

A Passage to Italy: Narrating the Family Crisis in E.M. Forster’s
Where Angels Fear to Tread, by K. Womack
Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, Sept. 2000

A Room With A View, by A. Kopkind (film review)
The Nation, August 16, 1986

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