Bill Wolff, PhD

Associate Professor, Communication, Film, and Journalism, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA

core2s14 readings

About the Readings

Reading are listed in alphabetical order, not the order in which they are assigned. Many of the essays are PDF files that require a PDF reader, like the free Adobe Reader. Notes from BW are in [ ].

Learning Record Texts to be Read for Week 2

Course Readings

Atwood, M. (2010, March 19). Atwood in the Twittersphere. New York Review of Books.

Branch, J. (2012, December 20). Snow fall: The avalanche at tunnel creek. The New York Times. [multimedia piece; not printable]

Christians, C.G. (2005). Ethics and politics in qualitative research. In N.K. Denzin & Y.S. Lincoln (Eds.) The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research (3rd ed.) (pp 139 – 164). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [.pdf]

Creswell, J.W. (2007). Five qualitative approaches to inquiry. In J.W. Creswell Qualitative inquiry & research design (2nd ed.). (pp. 53 – 84). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [.pdf]

Gerard, P. (2006). The art of creative research. The Writer’s Chronicle. [pdf; formatting is weird because I had to grab it off of the ]

Hudson, J.M. & Bruckman, A. (2004). “Go Away”: Participant Objections to Being Studied and the Ethics of Chatroom Research. The Information Society, 20, pp. 127–139. [PDF]

Johnson, S. (2009, June 5). How Twitter will change the way we live. Time. [PDF found online because after 4 years Time decided to put it behind a paywall.]

Jones, C. (2008, May). The things that carried him. Esquire. [Printable version.]

Junod, T. (2003, September). The falling man. Esquire. [Printable version.]

Lipsky, D. (2008, October 30). The lost years & last days of David Foster Wallace. Rolling Stone, 1064. [no longer online.]

Nutt, A.E. (2008, December 7). Jon Sarkin: The accidental artist. The Star-Ledger. [PDF because the multimedia version isn’t working]

Pink, S. (2007). Photography in ethnographic research. In Doing visual ethnography (pp. 65 – 95). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [.pdf]

Rettberg, J.W. (2009). What is a blog? Blogging. Malden, MA: Polity Press.

Ross, T. (2007, December). The source of all things. Backpacker. [There is no way to print the whole piece at once.]

Siebert, C. (2009, July 12). Watching whales watching us. The New York Times Magazine. [Printable version.]

Silver, D. (2009, February 25). The difference between thin and think tweets. Silver in SF.

Syverson, M.A. (1999). Thinking with the things as they exist: Ecology of a poem. In The wealth of reality: An ecology of composition (pp. 28-74). Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. [.pdf]

Thompson, C. (2008, September 5). Brave new world of digital intimacy. The New York Times Magazine. [Printable version.]

Wallace, D.F. (1996, January). Shipping out. Harper’s Magazine. [PDF, 8.6mb]

Wallace, D.F. (1994, July). Ticket to the fair. Harper’s Magazine. [PDF, 7.4mb]