Also see: D&T Reading, Watching, Listening for class books and articles.
Contents
- Technology
- Cultural Competence Guides
- Additional Trainings
- Positionality and Theory
- General Research Guides
- Templates/Resources for your papers (by Prof)
Technology
- What is “technology?” See this discussion from Keywords for American Cultural Studies.
- What is “disruptive technology?” See this discussion of disruptive innovation from Harvard Business Review.
- An example list of arguably disruptive technologies: PBS American Experience’s Technology Timeline.
Cultural Competence Guides
As you prepare your paper, please use the appropriate style guides to standardize and justify how you describe minority and marginalized groups.
- Protected Classes (a.k.a. Protected Identities) defined by the laws of:
- Essential Style Guides for writing about marginalized populations
- APA Inclusive Language Guidelines
- APA 7, Bias-Free Language Guidelines (See the full chapter here).
- MLA Guide to Inclusive Language (NYU login required; summary here)
- Diversity Style Guides for various protected (from SFSU Journalism School). This includes guides on race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, disability/ability, mental health, religion, and more.
- Also note the menu on “Topic Glossaries“
- Dart Guide for Trauma-Informed Journalism
Additional Trainings
- NYU One Zone trainings, including trainings on advocacy and allyship for marginalized racial/ethnic, gender/sexuality, immigrant, disability, and religious groups.
- Prof D’s training on LGBTQ+ concepts and terms, prepared for United Auto Workers (UAW) Region 9A. The 23-minute training is from 08:30 to 30:00.
- Additional Identities
- Prison populations & justice-involved communities:
- Global socioeconomic status (SES):
- If You Shouldn’t Call It The Third World, What Should You Call It? (NPR)
- Third World Definition – investopedia.com
- The World by Income and Region (World Bank) – with animation!
- World Development Report 2021 (World Bank)
- UN Human Development Reports (multidimensional)
- Additional Style Guides
- U of Maryland Citation Justice Guide
- Cal State Diversity/Inclusivity Style Guide
- Study.com DEI Style Guide
Positionality and Theory
- Positionality (NYU login required): building on your background, engineering major & interests
- Class exercise: Speak Your Truth, Check Your Privilege
- See also: APA Inclusive Language Guidelines
- Related scholarly techniques: Reflexivity (thematic analysis), Subjectivity Statement, Autoethnography
- Recommended Method: Critical Literary Theory
- Why use the critical literary theoretical approach?
- Flexible, unstructured, can include other methodologies, doesn’t require additional data collection or structured analysis
- I like the broadness of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature (NYU login required); it draws on fields outside of English lit and American lit. Please use this resource to explore and choose at least one
- Specific theories
- Theoretical areas
- Note that intersectionality is discussed in other Oxford Research Encyclopedias as well.
- Other methods: Sage Methods Map (NYU login required)
- Qualitative Analysis (NYU login required)
- Why use the critical literary theoretical approach?
General Research Guides
- Types of Research Papers (Purdue Univ. OWL)
- Argumentative or Analytical (Purdue Univ. OWL)
- Lit Review or Experimental / Research Report (Purdue Univ. OWL)
- Types of Research Designs
- Types of Research Designs (Sacred Heart Univ.)
- Types of Research Designs (USC)
- The Selection of a Research Design (Sage Publications)
- APA Style and Grammar Guidelines
- NYU Libraries Research Guides
- Finding stats for your “Problem / Significance” section: NYU Data Sources and ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
- NYU: Capstone Project Guide
- Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)
- UCLA: types of literature reviews
Templates/Resources for your Papers (by Prof)
- Checklist: Cultural Competencies
- Paper Template 2023
- Midterm Project Gradesheet