Discussion 1: Sony Marketing
After reading Chapter 7 on Demand Forecasting in a Supply Chain and reviewing the case study, Sony Marketing (Japan) Inc., discuss your views on the role that demand forecasting plays in Sony's supply chain strategy. Tell us the factors that make a demand forecasting strategy necessary, and how Sony is able to be more responsive to its customers due to this SCM strategy.
Discussion 2: Trends Changing Supply Chain Management
After reading the Hitachi Consulting White Paper titled, Six Key Trends Changing Supply Chain Management Today, from your perspective choose the two most important trends from the list of six; explain each trend and why you feel it has the most impact on supply chain management today. Be sure to include a real life example of a company that has been impacted by each of the two trends that you have selected.
Assignment 1: Critical Thinking in Social Media News
Social media is a democratized information environment, where everyone has a voice, can offer an opinion, and express beliefs with parity. All that is needed is an attentive audience. Social media informants range from recognized subject-matter experts to propagators of deliberate misinformation or "fake news." It is up to you, the receiver, to decide which sources are credible, trustworthy, and reliable.
If social media users do not perceive bias in the news, are unable to detect ideology, slant, and spin, or cannot recognize propaganda, they cannot decide which social media messages should be supplemented, counterbalanced, or dismissed entirely (Paul & Elder, 2006). In social media, we can easily spread news; what is more important is our obligation to discern the quality of the news we receive and pass on to others. This is where critical thinking is vital, as it is how we can keep social media beneficial to ourselves and others.
Address the following:
• Discuss the differences among misinformation, propaganda, and fake news on social media. Include recent examples from social media.
• Which of these three categories is most difficult to detect, and why?
• Locate and share links to reliable guidelines for use in assessing the credibility of social media information. Discuss the reasons you believe these guidelines are helpful and sufficient.
• What strategies are social media platforms currently taking (or considering) to improve the quality of news and reduce the influence of fake news on their platforms?
• What responsibility do we have, as users of social media, to detect and avoid repeating misinformation or fake news?
Assignment 2: From Connecting to Homophily in Social Media
From Connecting to Homophily on Social Media
This is your second discussion blog post in this course. Remember to create your post as a Microsoft Word document so you can paste your work into the blog platform.
For most people, it is comfortable to associate with others who are "like me;" as the old saying goes, "Birds of a feather flock together." We may have similar values, interests, appearance, behavior, or concerns, and being around similar people contributes to homophily, or "love of the same." The effects of homophily have been researched in diverse areas, from dating to drug use to social media.
In social media, we tend to "like" and follow others to whom we relate in some way. Social media platforms recognize the value of homophily and use algorithms to introduce news, products, or other people to whom we might relate and expand our preferred social network. If you read or "like" stories about landscape photography on Facebook, you will see more ads and articles for landscape photography in your newsfeed. Connecting gets us started, homophily may develop, and algorithms fuel the process even further.
The influence of homophily and social media algorithms that encourage homophily can result in our feeling very much connected, understood, and even appreciated for our similarities. These may be potential benefits of social media.
For this initial discussion blog post:
• Develop an attention-getting title related to the subject of connecting and developing homophily in social media.
• Locate a copyright-free image that grabs viewer attention for use in your discussion blog post.
• Divide your initial discussion blog post into three separate sections using headings of your choice with bold type to separate the sections of your post:
o In the first section of your blog post, discuss factors that contribute to feeling connected in social media and why social connection is desirable. You may build on ideas presented in the description of this discussion. Remember your focus is on the psychology of social media, not just social media.
o In the second section, discuss the concept of homophily and how this may result from social media use. Discuss some of the benefits of homophily in social media.
o In the third section of your blog post, discuss the contribution of platform algorithms to the development of homophily. Provide some examples from social media platforms with which you are familiar.
o Finally, conclude your post with a references section. Your references should be in APA format and you should have references matching each of the in-text citations used in your post.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.