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Media Literacy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is a mystery?






2. interactive media games are In what stage of development?






3. When people 'blame the media' for causing a tragic event & they are not taking into account all the factors that influence behavior and are not making...






4. What is a wiki?






5. After regularly consuming media & if you believe that the world is a mean place & you are experiencing what type of effect?






6. What does MMORPG stand for?






7. Creators use the formula to do what?






8. What was significant about the Communications Act 1934?


9. What is the ability to be creative?






10. What are the two long-term attitudinal effects?






11. There is a trend of ______________ of ownership in the media






12. What marital status is more represented on tv?






13. What are the four cognitive abilities?






14. according to the textbook & fewer than one in every _____ television shows that present sexual content will have any mention of risks or responsibilities of unprotected sex.






15. to end up at the top of a Google search & a website must what?






16. What are the three parts of efficiency?






17. The three forces that have shaped the development of the interactive mass media






18. What are the four controversial content elements?






19. What must happen during television before commercial break?






20. What are the two major effects from the telecommunications competition & deregulation act of 1996?






21. What is action/horror?






22. When one media company buys companies that are buyers or suppliers to create integration in the production and distribution of messages & what type of concentration is this?






23. What does the personal locus do?


24. What socioeconomic status is more represented?






25. The video industry has 'a good deal of vertical integration'. What does this mean?






26. What is efficiency?


27. Describe manifest effects?






28. What are examples of baseline factors?






29. What are some examples of where advertisements can be found?






30. What are examples of baseline factors?






31. What are the two timing factors?






32. the rationale for regulation in broadcasting is based on what?






33. What was significant about the Communications Act 1934?


34. what type of health patterns are there?






35. What does attitudinal effects create and shape?






36. People with the ___________________ learn the most from the media






37. Over time & the government has been _______________ with regard to who controls the media






38. Every day & our baseline of media effects what?






39. What is flow?






40. Give an example of the content of messages






41. according to the textbook & _____ are more likely to be represented in the television world than the real world.






42. When a digital game has been designed well & it delivers an experience to players through what?






43. Give an example of the cognitive complexity of content






44. You are asked to serve on a jury for a civil trial. because you have been watching CSI for years & you are thrilled to get to be a part of the trial. during the trial & there is no DNA evidence & like you expected there to be that convinces you of th






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?






46. In order to become media literate in interactive media & what do we need to establish?






47. What did the Communications Act of 1934 require?






48. What gender is more popular on tv?






49. What is the ability to memorize facts?






50. What is WOW?