AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR STUDY

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Overview: Choose an author/illustrator from the list provided.  Read a selection of the author/illustrators body of work. Prepare a paper in which you provide:

(1) Biographical Information: This should be a very brief introduction to the author/illustrator, capturing a slice of relevant experiences that have impacted the body of work. (half page)

(2) Annotated Bibliography: (several about10 books)
Childrens Books:
Select the texts that you consider to represent the most depth and breadth of this author/illustrators work. Include complete bibliographical information for the selected texts (APA format).  Then, provide an original description for each book. Be sure to focus on both content and craft in your description.
Professional Articles:
Select 3 professional articles about or relating to your author/illustrator and annotate as with the literature above. The professional articles must be from peer-reviewed journals.

(3) Critical Content Analysis: *This section should make up the bulk of your research and should include the following:
a) an overview of the body of work, including an analysis of the author/illustrators style as well as common themes across the books. Equal weight should be given to the content and the craft. Notice any changes that occur over time.
b) develop the claims you make in part through a close examination of one or two books from the body of work. Draw upon literature from class and/or the field to support your analysis and speak in conversation with existing scholarship (2 pages)

(4) Additional References

ByteDance Beyond China

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This is a TEAM assignment and teams for this case will be assigned on
the learning management system. Please read the assigned case
carefully before answering the following questions.
Submission guidelines:
Upload ONE word or pdf document by the deadline published
on the learning management system. Use 12 point font and double spacing. Total page limit = 3 pages for answering all questions stated
below. You will be assigned a grade based upon your responses as
well as the neatness and clarity of your final submission.
The ByteDance case provides an excellent history of AI and also
a snapshot of the company. You may be tested on case facts in
the form of short multiple-choice questions in future tests.
However, for this case assignment, ignore the questions provided
in the body of the case and answer the following questions
instead.
This case is an AI introspection assignment. Answer the following
questions:
Q1: Think carefully about the AI recommendations for content made by
ByteDance, particularly the phrase users do not have to think used in
the case. Introspect with your teammates on the impact of AI in all
our lives. While it is not necessary to do so, it may be helpful for you
to review strong criticisms of AI made for instance in the show The
Social Dilemma and the book Weapons of math destruction by Cathy
ONeill. After reading the ByteDance case carefully and reviewing
other sources, prepare a 2-column table, roughly interpreted as
Positive aspects of AI and Negative aspects of AI. Which side do
you think is winning right now?
Q2: In 2020, the Indian government banned TikTok in India (for various
reasons). For this case assignment, introspect on the cultural impact
of AI applications. Provide one instance from the public domain
wherein AI is aligned with the culture and one instance where it has crossed paths with a culture. What impact will this introspection have
on your use of AI within your company as a manager?
Q3: Comment on the impact of ByteDance being a company from
China. In particular, a) have the barriers to data sharing in other
countries hampered the development of AI (and facilitated it in China)?
B) what role should governments (and public policy) play in fostering
AI, both within China and outside?

Children and Medication

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Briefly explain the claims of both articles as well as the background of the controversy and how it became controversial. Including how historical perspectives and theories add to the controversy.
Examine the evidence given in the articles and explain which article creates a stronger argument.
Identify any logic fallacies that exist in both and explain what makes them logic fallacies.
Describe why the articles argument is stronger than the other. Give examples from both. Include how current perspectives and theories support your rationale.
Describe how the controversy you chose is applicable and significant to the world

Advertising Analysis

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Use the following steps to analysis (from Lester) and choose one analytical approach to analyze ONE TV ad of your choice.

If you do not have cable or have access to TV advertisements, check out some ads on YouTube and choose one that interests you.

Consider authorship. Who created this ad and why are they sending it? Look into the political economy behind the ad. What agency produced it? How does the ownership/production of the ad affect its content?
Evaluate the audience. Who are the intended targets of this text? Try to theorize about the intended audience using context cues from the program it aired on, if applicable. Who do you think mostly watches the show that the ad was placed in? Why do you suppose this ad was considered a good fit for the program?
Also consider how audiences may be prompted to interact with the ad, or with the company. Does the ad display a hashtag to use? (e.g. #LikeAGirl?) Or does it prompt audience members to submit their ideas, visit a website, or call a number?
Determine the institutional purpose: Why is this content being sent? Remember that most of the worlds media are moneymaking enterprises. Scholars of political economy suggest that the overall purpose of much media content created by huge corporations is to reinforce the power of those companies. How might that be true with the ad you chose? Or do you think this ad might be an exception to this rule? What other purposes might be behind this ad? (For example the choice of spokesperson might be a calculated decision to garner good PR.)
Analyze the content: Ask yourself: what values, lifestyles, and points of view are represented in (or omitted from) this message? Remember that all media offerings are constructed, and choices must be made. Consider the Jhally and These choices will inevitably reflect the values, attitudes, and points of view of the people doing the constructing.
Identify the creative techniques. What creative techniques are being used to catch your attention? Still images, moving images, words, camera angle, music, color, all work together to produce different feelings or senses. Think outside the box. There are many different creative techniques to consider.
Finally, in your conclusion, I want you to very briefly discuss your opinion of this ad based on the answers to these five questions. What did you think of it? Do you find it compelling? Annoying? Does anything about it bother you? Do you love it? Hate it? Find it boring?
LAYOUT/LENGTH REQUIREMENTS:

This paper should be 2-3 pages long. At most, it should be 4 pages. Being concise is good; just make sure you address each of the five questions COMPLETELY. Please use a Times-based font, and use 1-inch margins (1.25-inch margins on the sides, at the most). It should also be double-spaced.

At the TOP of your paper, or on a cover page, please be sure to include:

YOUR NAME
The name of the class
The date
STRUCTURE:

Make sure that your paper has a clear structure: (1) Introduction, (2) Thesis statement, (3) Body (in which you address each of the questions listed above) and (4) Conclusion (You should address question 6 in your conclusion).

IN YOUR INTRODUCTION, Make sure you note:

The name of the company/ad (if applicable some ads have titles)
The basic premise of the ad in 1-3 sentences (so I can understand it, in case Im not familiar with the ad in question)
How you watched it (online or on TV)
IN YOUR CONCLUSION, make sure you note:

Your reasoning behind your conclusions
REFERENCES:

I also expect you to list your references on a separate (final) page of the paper. This paper should have at least 2 references (the ad itself, and a class reading). You may choose to add more references if you cite additional outside information. 

You can use whichever citation style you feel most comfortable with for the references, as long as you are consistent. Feel free to cite the readings from this class as references if you are using concepts from the readings. You will need other external citations to fully answer the above questions, such as authorship you will need to look at which media company owns the network, for example, and who produces the show.

Please do not use Wikipedia as a primary source. Feel free to use it as a tool to point you to other, better primary sources, however.

Also, be thoughtful about your sources. Use sources that are reliable and trustworthyextremely partisan sources, for example, or blog posts, do not make very good sources for academic work.