Daisey essay. Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory. Literature & Language
Revise your analysis of Daisey.
1 a) At a minimum, this is an opportunity to further develop your argument, introduction, conclusion, check or rethink the organization, add evidence and a counter-argument, check for logical sequencing of your evidence, better integrate quotations, and clean up grammatical, punctuation and citation errors. You can also go through to revise for style (see OWL conciseness handout Link (Links to an external site.) ).
b) You can also do a wholesale revision and reworking to compare Daisey's story to Matt Stopera's Brother Orange Odyssey. If you do this here are some questions to think about: What precipitates each guy's trip to China? What are Stopera's expectations and what are Daisey's? What does each journalist actually produce? What is the public reaction to each? What is the larger story each initiates with their work? What ultimate outcomes or effects does each have?
Process: read over your paper and see what you already have about Daisey that works with this new comparative prompt. It should be almost everything. Then think about introducing Stopera in a comparative manner and covering his story. You'll need to revise your argument, but I'd wait to do this until after you've written more about Stopera. Remember to use your response to Brother Orange.
c) Or you can read and incorporate one of the following academic articles on Mike Daisey. Check these out--they're academic so they're a more of a challenge to read, but they serve as good models for how a story you've written about is handled by several academic disciplines.
M. B. Willard, Jennifer Kokai, " ‘A Kind of Magic’: Theatre, Transportation, and Moral Persuasion."
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Volume 28, Number 2, Spring
2014, pp. 7-27
‘A Kind of Magic’-.pdf (See attached files)
Shannon Steen, "Neoliberal Scandals: Foxconn, Mike Daisey, and the Turn Toward Nonfiction."
Drama Theatre Journal, Volume 66, Number 1, March 2014, pp. 1-18
Neoliberal Scandals.pdf (See attached files)
Ashley Barnwell (2014) ‘Unpacking the complexities’ of authorship on This
American.Life , Continuum (Journal of Cultural and Media Studies), 28:5, 709-719.
Unpacking authorship.pdf (See attached files)
Process: If you do this you'll need to introduce the article and characterize it (remember your precís process) and then relate it to your analysis in your original essay. This will take some work, but you don't have to address everything in whichever article you use. Look for parts that analyze what you do. How does the author reconceive your topic? Where does your work converge with theirs? Where does it differ?
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2) There are two other parts of this assignment in addition to the revisions themselves. First, annotate the significant changes you've made. Use Google Docs "add comment"--it's the comment box with a plus sign in the middle on the toolbar (or command + option + m). Highlight what you've changed and annotate with a note in the comment box. For instance, if you added a couple of sentences about Mike Daisey making up the on-ramp to nowhere, highlight them and leave a note that says something like, "Added another example of a complete lie to further substantiate my argument." If you end up adding a whole new ¶ just leave a note to that effect. You can leave my comments if they are about a major revision. Also, for minor or repetitive issues just annotate the first correction, not every single one. For instance, if you needed to put the punctuation outside the citation (a common issue), just annotate the correction once.
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Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs was a story that dominated the news in March 2012. The fabricated one-man theatre piece which talked about brutal working conditions for people who work in Apple’s contracted Chinese Foxconn factories, caused led to a public criticism of Apple. When questioned later, Mr. Daisey admitted to fabricating some parts of the monologue. This essay examines the role of journalism in raising our consciousness. It will also touch on the importance of honesty as a journalistic ethic. Daisey’s performance reveals the unique role of journalism and demonstrates how lack of ethics is harmful to society.
Journalistic ethics are the principles that govern the journalism profession. First and foremost, Mike Daisey violated the code of honesty when he used the radio show to spread falsehoods. He might not have been a journalist but that does not change that he misused a journalistic approach. Mike Daisey work is self-criticism because it establishes the standards that his work should meet. History has shown people time and again that the goal of this misinformation is not merely to convince people of the falsehood but rather to cast seeds of doubt. By projecting an image of poor working conditions in Foxconn, which is responsible for making Apple products, he reduced the customer’s morale with Apple products. Initially, he claimed that he met with some people working in an iPhone assembly line and talked about the working conditions (Glass, 2012a).
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs is a journalistic monologue that was released shortly after the death of Steve Jobs. It combines how Mr. Daisey visited the Chinese factories where Apple products are assembled. This is a complete work of theatrical art because it was presented through stage performance. Apple’s audits show that similar occurrences took place but involved a company more than 50 miles from where Mr. Daisey said it thus revealing part of his lies (Glass, 2012a). However, all this would have been ignored if it was all false. His stunts caused customers to develop a disinterest in Apple products, placing the company in a bad position. Moreover, a report done by the China Labor Watch showed that, &ldq...