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Media Literacy
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literacy
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journalism-and-media
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Your _______ when you consume media content can alter your perception of and reaction to the content?
State
Motivations & states & degree of identification
Can be at risk & shaped by media & own life factors
Ownership rules are relaxed
2. What is the ability to memorize facts?
Crystalline intelligence
Explorers & socializers & achievers & controllers
By medium & society
Dramas and situation comedies
3. What are the two types of factors in fluctuation?
Strong personal locus
Media and personal
More likely to appear in comedies than dramas
Hawaiian word wikiwiki
4. What is localism?
The control of important institutions in the hads of all people
People have control and control is decentralized
Governed by the FCC & includes racial slurs & includes gender slurs & can lead to severe and immediate consequences
Different from
5. What is a baseline effect?
The typical level of risk for an effect
Being immersed deeply in a task that they lose track of time and place
An informed decision
Media and messages
6. what 2 major effects did the telecommunications competition and deregulation act of 1996 have?
Media concentration & media deregulation
3%
Can be addictive
Verbal violence
7. _______________ are societal changes that occur over a long period of time.
Strong personal locus
Macro-level effects
Sex & violence & language & sexual orientation
Condition audiences for repeat exposures
8. Name the two types of process effects?
Baseline & fluctuation
Telescoping
Process effects
Happiness is found in having things
9. After regularly consuming media & if you believe that the world is a mean place & you are experiencing what type of effect?
Field independency & type of intelligence & type of thinking & conceptual differentation
Developmental maturity & knowledge structures & media exposure habits
Attitudinal
Always occurring
10. according to the textbook & which occupation is the most prevalent in the television world?
Influences
Prescription drugs
Factual and social
Medical workers
11. What is WOW?
Opportunities vs addictions & goals
World of Warcraft & $15 per month & an online game & most successful video game in the world
Physiological
We keep asking for more products
12. What are the 3 developmental maturities?
Viacom & CBS
Niche audiences
Cognitive & emotional & moral
An attitudinal-type effect
13. What is the ability to be creative?
Fluid intelligence
Cognitive
Explorers & socializers & achievers & controllers
Field independency & type of intelligence & type of thinking & conceptual differentiation
14. What is the process of flow?
Being immersed so deeply into a task so they lose track of all time and place
Cognitive & emotional & moral
65+ years of age
When game developers market their game code to other game developers
15. what type of health patterns are there?
Deceptive
Emotional
Richer
Medical workers
16. Creators use the formula to do what?
Create successful products
Positive because they are easy for viewers to recognize
We keep asking for more products
When whole segments of the population are ignored
17. when does immediate effects occur?
Many companies
During an exposure to a particular message
Conflict & climax & resolution
Establish awareness of products & existence of products
18. What is the natural ability to distinguish the singal and the noise in any message?
When game developers market their game code to other game developers
Websites that allow users to add & edit material
Richer
Field independency
19. Describe manifest effects?
Easily noticable
Influences
They are interactive
Influences
20. What are the two competing values?
The typical level of risk for an effect
Localism and efficiency
Emotional
Institutions & society & individuals
21. Like other media & the internet is now mature enough to suffer from...
By medium & society
Relaxing regulations
Concentration
African Americans
22. Example: after Dennis went to see a movie about The Holocaust & he became very sad about how inhumane man can be. What is this an example of?
Desensitization
Goals & drives
Emotional
Confusing to the audience
23. According to the _______________ is the most challenging medium for telling stories
Conservative
Text & television
African Americans
Cognitive
24. In order to become media literate in interactive media & what do we need to establish?
Opportunities vs addictions & goals
Penetration
Flow & telescoping
Largest amount of knowledge
25. In what 6 ways is advertising deceptive?
Try to solve the plot
More married women
Pseudo-claims & comparison with unidentified other & comparison of product to its earlier form & irrelevant comparisons & pseudo-survey & juxtaposition
Crystalline intelligence
26. example: when Ryan listened to patriotic music & he got shivers up his spine. This is an example of what?
Ownership rules are relaxed
Physiological
Medical workers
Field independency & type of intelligence & type of thinking & conceptual differentiation
27. What is a mystery?
Largest amount of knowledge
Conflict & climax & resolution
They eliminated the legal barrier to competition across markets
Try to solve the plot
28. When does invisible stereotyping occur?
Medical workers
65+ years of age
1950s
When whole segments of the population are ignored
29. The business trend to consolidate has grown stronger than the government's impulse to...
Medical workers
Medical workers
More likely to appear in comedies than dramas
Regulate
30. What was it when ownership rules were relaxed?
Baseline and fluctuation
They eliminated the legal barrier to competition across markets
1950s
Media concentration
31. What does a cognitive-effect means?
Flow & telescoping
Social and economic
Required broadcasters to serve the public's interest & convenience & & necessity
The media can provide us with information
32. Media ___________ in the same way other institutions do & such as parents & friends & education & or religion.
Influences
Relaxing regulations
Being immersed so deeply into a task so they lose track of all time and place
Younger age
33. What do interactive games have the power to do?
Process effects
Prescription drugs
Media concentration & media deregulation
Condition audiences for repeat exposures
34. What are the two types of thinking?
Concentration
Relaxing regulations
Automaticy
Vertical and lateral
35. What is our personal locus made up of?
The company that owns the platform also develops the games and distributes them
Goals & drives
Pseudo-claims & comparison with unidentified other & comparison of product to its earlier form & irrelevant comparisons & pseudo-survey & juxtaposition
Advertisers manipulating us into buying things we don't need
36. Media ownership has big impact on...
World of Warcraft & $15 per month & an online game & most successful video game in the world
Strong personal locus
Media content
Horizontal
37. Values that are reflected in entertainment messages include what?
Localism
An informed decision
Happiness is found in having things
Physiological
38. What is the natural ability to distinguish the singal and the noise in any message?
Prescription drugs
65+ years of age
1950s
Field independency
39. What government organization monitors tv and radio programming to determine if it is obscene or not?
Localism
Immediate
Federal Communications Commission
Efficiency
40. What best reflects the effects the media has on us?
Attitudinal
Content of messages & context of portrayals & cognitive complexity of content
Always occurring
Macro-level effects
41. on television & three-quarters of all characters are between the ages of 20 and 50. which age group is the most imbalanced in terms of representation on television?
Media and messages
Different from
65+ years of age
Cognitive
42. If you watch an action packed movie and your heart races & you are experiencing what type of emotion?
Different from
Physiological
Media concentration
Institutions
43. What are examples of baseline factors?
Institutions
Concentration
Developmental maturity & knowledge structures & media exposure habits
Immediate and long-term
44. What are some fluctuation factors?
Concentration & consolidation & centralization
Can be at risk & shaped by media & own life factors
State of mind & motivation & & degree of identification
60%
45. Example: Jacob played a video game of crime life. He then joined a gang and pulled a knife on a police officer. What is this an example of?
Manifest effect
Field independency & type of intelligence & type of thinking & conceptual differentiation
Deceptive
To compare the tragic characters & make the audience feel better
46. Every day & our baseline of media effects what?
Arcade games
Happiness is found in having things
CEOs holding a greater concentration of power
Can be at risk & shaped by media & own life factors
47. interactive media games are In what stage of development?
Penetration
65+ years of age
Localism and efficiency
Emotional
48. What are the three parts of efficiency?
Field independency
Fluid intelligence
Concentration & consolidation & centralization
Always occurring
49. What is the natural ability to distinguish the signal and the noise in any message?
Field independency
Desensitization
CEOs holding a greater concentration of power
Governed by the FCC & includes racial slurs & includes gender slurs & can lead to severe and immediate consequences
50. What is fluctuation effect?
Conflict
Promotes
Typical level of risk for an effect
A temporary effect