Review the Toulmin Method and use all five parts to set up your response for maximum points: 1) claim, 2) grounds, 3) warrants, 4) backing, 5) rebuttal

1. Read about the Bionic Leaf. and report to me your thoughts. Apply the first three steps of the scientific method to this new phenomenon. Half of the page should be the background and significance of this breakthrough and half should be your opinion on the matter.
2. Read about the Woolly Mammoth Project. Find out about George Church’s role. Half should be introduction/background and the other half should be your opinion on the matter.
3. Write me a page about mitochondrial DNA replacement therapy. Half should be introduction/background and the other half should be your opinion on the matter.

Your Task: Compare and contrast the two companies’ crisis response

INITIAL POST

Answering all of the following questions in 150 – 250 words.

What image repair strategy did they use? Was it effective? Why or why not?

• What did each company do well?
• Did one company do a better job at crisis communication than the other?
• What could each company have done better?

What were the consequences for Yahoo and Home Depot as a result of their handling of the data breaches?

Assume you have recently been hired as the director of corporate communications for Amazon.com. On your first day on the job, you realize that the company has neither a people-centric corporate culture nor an open culture. As former director of corporate communications at Google, which has a more open environment, you are concerned about the potential crises this work culture could create.

Your task: Draft a 1-page memo to CEO Jeff Bezos consisting of 10 main points to accomplish the following:

• Assume that Jeff Bezos has read the disparaging news articles about his company’s work place culture.
• Convince him why a strong people-centric corporate culture is an effective and imperative crisis prevention tool
• Provide ideas/strategies to develop programs that foster open communication and strong relationships with Amazon’s employees

As you draft your memo, think critically about the following:

• What the warning signs were and explain if you paid attention to them, you could prevent the crisis.
• How to persuade a CEO who may not respond well to PR tactics.
• What issues would be relevant to a CEO

If you don’t know how to write a memo, please go to search on GOOGLE. THE FORMAT IS IMPORTANT.

The attachment is the rubric.

Data Breach Statement

Assume that you are the U.S. Communications Director at Google and you just learned that personal information from 1.5 billion users was hacked by an unknown government entity.

Your task: Choose an image repair strategy and draft an apology statement that will be emailed to all users and sent to the media with the objective of restoring Google’s image.

Because this is a hypothetical scenario, you may create facts that you would need to support your statement about the company and it’s crisis response.

Identify an issue that is facing our society today that is in some way related to sex and/or gender and has opposing sides. Consider a law that was recently put into or taken out of effect or is being debated. You could also look to the statements or actions of a public figure or organization that has generated significant attention from the media. The issue you select should have ample material from which you may pull to gain insight into the details surrounding it.

Explore multiple sides of the issue you have selected until you have a good understanding as to why each side believes it is right. Research the historical events that have caused the circumstances of this issue. Engage in discussions with others who have strong feelings about the issue to learn the reasons why they feel they way they do.

Make sure to research both sides thoroughly as the goal with this paper will be to write it in a manner that does not allow the reader to know which side of the issue that you are on. You will not be condoning or condemning either side- your goal is to be as objective as possible in reviewing the issue you select.

Construct a 1,000-1,250 word essay that demonstrates your understanding of the following:

• The issue that you have identified (a concise synopsis of what the issue is)
• Historical context (previous events in history that have contributed to the rise of the issue)
• Both sides of the current argument (provide an objective review- the reader should not know which side of the issue that you personally are on)
• At least two possible resolutions to the issue (include the potential ramifications of each resolution for both sides)

Your paper should include an introduction and conclusion, at least 5 cited references (only 2 of which may be your discussions with others, excluding those identified as subject matter experts in your writing), and must adhere to APA formatting.

Read any chapter from among chapters 2-12 in eds. Menjivar and Rodriguez, When States Kill:  Latin America, the US, and Technologies of Terror (University of Texas Press, 2005).  https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sdsu/detail.action?docID=3443158 (Links to an external site.) and post answers to the following–

Where and when did the (inter)state violence discussed in the chapter take place?

What acts were perpetrated that are consistent with state or state-sanctioned violence in dirty wars? Provide a summary of each act (each summary should be a few sentences long).

Weight: 40% of final mark. Length: 2500 words.

Task

In this assignment, you are asked to examine how ‘single, dispersed actors’ — Means that A person can represent a group who share same opinions (Mancini 2020) in the digital media space — citizens, journalists, entrepreneurs, social media users, or others — engage in online narrative struggles around a complex global, regional or country-specific problem.

(My chosen problem is Gender Inequality) Potential complex problems may include, but are not limited to the following: the future of journalism, gender inequality, fake news and misinformation, racism, digital platform regulation, media trust, inequalities within the Global South, social progress, media leadership, human rights abuses, precarious work, the COVID-19 pandemic, cosmopolitanism, migration, climate change, decolonization, digital access, democracy, ending poverty & hunger, food sovereignty, economic and social development in Africa, or cognitive justice.

Take a moment to think: what problem interests you?

Instructions

This assignment is supported by the Week 8 to Week 12 seminars and you should engage with these learning materials to guide the development of your assignment. The materials include discussion and exemplars of master narratives and counter-narratives in the media, journalism and debates around soft power strategies, the new contours of international media power, digital platforms, cultural cosmopolitanism and leadership in international media.

To develop your response, you are required to choose one particular type of ‘single dispersed actor’ (Mancini 2020), present their specific point of view on the complex problem, and then create a counter-narrative, alternative narrative or defensive master narrative in response. (My chosen narrative is Counter-Narrative)

For example, citizens wanting freedom who tweet their opposition to mandatory COVID-19 lockdowns, a point of view which you challenge by creating a new alternative narrative telling the story of front-line health workers.

Or digital platform entrepreneurs’ calls for stronger regulation of the internet around harmful content, election integrity, privacy, and data portability, a proposal which you systematically scrutinize and unpack, before creating a counter-narrative based on whistle-blowers’ revelations about companies seeking profit over the safety of their users.

Or ‘self-branded’ journalists who dismiss and disparage teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg (e.g. calling her a ‘global warming guru’), a claim that you emotionally disarm with a counter-narrative telling the story of what young people in your country are doing around climate action.

Or social media users who find themselves entangled in the constant flow of online anti-refugee and racist interactions, yet believe technology is neutral, a view that you explore and link to the digital platforms self-branding, before creating an alternative narrative around how communication technologies are vulnerable to bias and abuse.

Your assignment should address, but is not restricted to, the following elements:

Snapshot of ‘single dispersed actor’ (Mancini 2020)

Actor’s framing and point of view on the selected complex problem

Actor’s media strategy for engaging online public opinion and/or responses to online public opinion

1. Your framing and point of view on the selected complex problem

Your response (e.g. defensive master narrative, counter-narrative or alternative narrative) and rationale for choice of narrative type.

1. Your suggested media strategy for engaging online public opinion on your response.

Your assessment of this specific narrative struggle as a means of changing people’s thinking about complex global, regional or country specific problems.

Presentation

Practice essay on art

BAROQUE IN SOUTHERN EUROPE (Italy and Spain)

The Baroque style took different forms in Europe’s nations and colonies, reflecting the different audiences it had to satisfy in Southern Europe (like Italy and Spain), than in Northern Europe. (like France, and the Netherlands). After reading this week’s material, respond to the following questions:

What are some of Baroque’s main characteristics in Italy, where this style was born?

What did it have to do with a renewed religious devotion?

Who were the most famous Baroque artists in Italy and Spain?

Why is it usually said that it was a contrast to the ordered rationalism of the Renaissance? Please provide artwork examples to support your ideas.