Readings

Updated Nov 25, 2024

 

 

Ethics Handouts:

 

Five-Part Reading Tool:

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Five Types ofΒ  Ethics:

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Empathy Handout:

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Five Types of Conclusion:

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First Page Example of an Essay on Ethics:

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Example of Weaving an Author Essay into Your Own Essay:

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SHORT STORIES:

 

The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson (published 1948)

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“Thank You Ma’am” by Langston Hughes (published 1958)

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β€œThe Veldt”  by Ray Bradbury (published 1950)

https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/163728/The%20Veldt%20-%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf

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“Assimilation” by E.L. Doctorow (published 2010)

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β€œThe Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri (published 1999)

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β€œThe Enormous Radio” by John Cheever (published 1953)

http://bit.ly/34I3BZh

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β€œAn Arranged Marriage” by Nell Freudenberger (published 2010)

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“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel GarcΓ­a MΓ‘rquez (published 1955)

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE READINGS

 

Crawford, K. (2021). Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press. pp. 1-7.

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Lapore, J. (2023, March 27). The Data Delusion. The New Yorker. The-Data-Delusion-Jill-Lapore-NewYorker

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Biever, C. (2023, July 27). The Easy Intelligence Test that AI Chatbots Fail. Nature. Celeste-Biever-AI-Chatbots-Fail-Nature

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Halpren, S. (2023, December 8). The Year A.I. Ate the Internet. The New Yorker.Β  https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/profscanlan-english1121-fall2024-d536/files/2024/02/Halpern-AI-at-the-Internet-NewYorker-2023.pdf

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Thompson, S. A. (2024, January 19). Test Yourself: Which Faces Were Made by A.I.? The New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/19/technology/artificial-intelligence-image-generators-faces-quiz.html

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Metz, C. et al. (2023, December 3). Ego, Fear and Money. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/technology/ai-openai-musk-page-altman.html

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MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI Working Paper: Overview of the Issues, Statement of Principles, and Recommendations

PDF: MLA-WorkingPaper-How-AI-Works

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Video: “Generative AI in a Nutshell – how to survive and thrive in the age of AI” by Henrik Kniberg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IK3DFHRFfw

 


 

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PHOTO ESSAY NON-FICTION ESSAYS

 

 

What the Still Photo Still Does Best

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/weekinreview/21klibanoff.html?_r=2

 

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Reading:

Sontag, S. (2013). On Photography. In D. Rieff (Ed.),Β Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70sΒ (pp. 531-539). The Library of America. https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/scanlan-english-1101-d333-spring2018/files/2018/03/Sontag-On-Photography.pdf

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Reading: “Perfect and Unrehersed,” by Teju Cole (from The New York Times)

Teju Cole: On Photography (Bresson’s Decisive Moment) Link

PDF Version: Teju-Cole-Perfect-and-Unrehearsed

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Reading:

Berger, J. (2013) Understanding a Photograph. In G. Dyer (Ed.), Understanding a Photograph (pp. 17-21). Aperture. https://archive.org/details/understanding-a-photograph-john-berger/page/20/mode/2up

 

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Photo Essay Examples:

Franck Bohbot: Timeless Portraits of L.A.’s Arcades:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/02/travel/los-angeles-arcades.html

PDF Version: Travel-los-angeles-arcades

 

 

Student Example of a photo essay (2017):

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Sophie Calle: Souris:

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Rule of Thirds:

http://improvephotography.com/34696/rule-of-thirds/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds

 

 

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"Igor" by Philip-Lorca diCorcia, 1987

β€œIgor” by Philip-Lorca diCorcia, 1987

 

Photographer: Jeff Roberts. Title: Michael Dunn is hugged by his mother Patricia Dunn as they stand in the road that lead to his house which was completely destroyed after a tornado touched down, Wednesday, April 27, 2011 in Concord, AL. Source: AP Photo/Birmingham News.

 

 

Photographer: Justin Alphonse (2018). A Joyful Chase. ENG1101. OpenLab.

 

 

Photographer: Devin Taylor (2018). Table for 2. ENG1101. OpenLab.

 

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The Main Concourse of Grand Central Station, 1929, Anonymous

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Henri Cartier Bresson, Derriere la gare de Saint Lazare, 1932

 

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Abbott, Nooney, Hine:

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New York Times: What’s Going On in This Picture?

https://www.nytimes.com/column/learning-whats-going-on-in-this-picture

 

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Reading Photos Form:

Reading photos form-2024

 

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Rebecca Norris Webb: “The Luminous Image”

Webb, R.N. (2014). The Luminous Image. In A. Webb and R.N. Webb (Eds.), Β On Street Photography and the Poetic Image. Aperture. https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/english1121-profscanlan-d533-fall2024/files/2024/01/RN-Webb-Photo-Essay-Luminous-Image.pdf

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History of Photography Timeline. APA Citation:

City of Alexandria. (2021). History of Photography Timeline. https://www.alexandriava.gov/historic-alexandria/basic-page/photographs-as-primary-sources

https://www.alexandriava.gov/historic-alexandria/basic-page/photographs-as-primary-sources

Third link on the right or click History-of-Photography-Timeline-Alexandria-VA

 

An excerpt from 100 Ideas that Changed Photography by Mary Warner Marien. APA Citation: Marien, M.Β  W. (2011). 100 Ideas that Changed Photography. Laurence King Publishing. pp. 24-27.

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