Announcements
Today’s timed exercise will ask you to discuss subtext. If you need a quick refresher as to what this is, here’s a dictionary definition! https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subtext
Agenda
- Intro: News Items (25). If you didn’t add a technology-related news item that came to mind during your reading/listening assignment, please add it now!
- Timed Exercise (25) in Brightspace
- Discussion (30) of last session’s assigned reading/listening:
- Civil & Human Rights laws & policies of
- New York Times: 1619 podcast, Episode 2
- Americaβs First Big Business: Not the Railroads, but SlaveryΒ (Part 1) andΒ How The West Got Rich and Modern Capitalism Was BornΒ (Part 2)
- Epigraph, Dedication, and Foreward of Beloved (only available in the ePub version)
- Beloved Part I, section 1, up to “jailed up flavor ran free.β
- Research Skills
Assignment
- Read/listen, take notes, and be ready for in-class timed exercises & discussions on:
- MLA Guide to Inclusive Language (NYU login required; summary here)
- APA Bias-Free Language Guidelines (See the full chapter here)
- UN pamphlets on bodily autonomy & integrity and bodily autonomy
- Beloved Part I, section 2, up to “the passion in her voice made them smile” Β (~1hr 15 min) in theΒ audiobookΒ orΒ ePub
- What current technology issues come to mind from your reading? Please find a news item about a relevant technology issue, and add its URL to the 9/13 tab in βD&T News Items 2023.β