1) What is the difference between Political Parties and Political Ideologies?

2) What role do third parties and independents play in our political system?

3) Summarize the 5 eras of Texas Political History (1840’s to 1870’s, 1870’s to 1970’s, 1970’s to 1990’s, 2000 to 2016, & 2016 and Beyond)

4) Explain the structure of Political Parties

Chapter 5: Campaigns and Elections

1) Explain how Political Campaigns are structured

2) Explain how Political Campaigns are carried out

3) Explain the role of ethnicity in plays in Political Campaigns

4) Explain the obstacles to voting and what affects voter turnout

5) Explain the difference between the general, primary, and special elections

Chapter 6: The Media and Politics

1) Explain the different ways Americans obtain information

2) How does the media influence the Texas political system

3) Explain how bias affects the media

4) Explain how the media is regulated

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CASE STUDY – Amazon v. New York Times

In 2015, the New York Times ran a negative story about Amazon’s workplace conditions. To combat this negative coverage, Jay Carney, a former White House press secretary and Amazon’s senior vice president for corporate affairs, criticized the New York Times story and its source on Medium.com. sources from this story included anonymous sources that did not reveal their true identities because of a nondisclosure agreement with Amazon.

A major source for this story, a former Amazon employee, Bo Olsen, gave an interview with the New York Times criticizing Amazon’s workplace. In his response, Carney revealed that Olsen was under investigation for fraud during his time at Amazon. Olsen actually admitted he had attempted to defraud vendors and resigned his position because of that. This case study illustrates corporations’ willingness to use communication tactics, as opposed to legal ones, to combat negative publicity. The case study of Amazon v. NYT presents an example of the tensions between defamation and privacy laws and demonstrates how corporations use social media platforms to combat negative press attention.

For your assignment I want you suppose you work as the social media manager for the restaurant chain Best Burger. One day while scanning posts about your company, you see that someone on Twitter posted three very negative comments about Best Burger. The comments were as follows:

Tweet 1: Best Burger is the WORST restaurant EVER!!! #nevereathere

Tweet 2: Best Burger’s food tastes like cardboard. It isn’t even real food

Tweet 3: Best Burger is not worth the price. They use dog food to make their hamburgers.

Assuming that Best Burger thinks its hamburgers are great and that the do not use dog food to make them, are any of these comments subject to defamation laws? Why or why not? Write a two-page paper regarding your answer. Word count: 500-700 words

Automated Decision Systems, Expert Systems, Knowledge Management and Collaborative Systems

Investigate the impact of turning off every communication system in a firm (i.e., telephone, fax, television, radio, all computer systems).

Create a WORD document of at least 500 words (1-2 pages). Make sure you cite any sources you use in your paper and include References at the bottom of your paper with the exact URL where you found these sources. Answer the following questions:

How effective and efficient would the following types of firms be: airline, bank, insurance company, travel agency, department store, grocery store?

What would happen?

Do customers expect 100 percent uptime? (When was the last time a major airline’s reservation system was down?)

How long would it be before each type of firm would not be functioning at all?

Activity based budgeting, would you be interested in doing case 9-27 then completing one of the locked problems(either exercise 9-9 or problem 9-25)- based on the same material from before