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Media Literacy
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journalism-and-media
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. If you watch an action packed movie and your heart races & you are experiencing what type of emotion?
Field independency & type of intelligence & type of thinking & conceptual differentation
To compare the tragic characters & make the audience feel better
Physiological
Opinions & beliefs & and values
2. if you ever watch a newscast and come away with helpful information & you are experiencing what type of effect?
Cognitive
Crystalline & fluid
During an exposure to a particular message
More likely to appear in comedies than dramas
3. After regularly consuming media & if you believe that the world is a mean place & you are experiencing what type of effect?
Prescription drugs
Influences
Good vs evil
Attitudinal
4. When a digital game has been designed well & it delivers an experience to players through what?
Concentration & consolidation & centralization
Flow & telescoping
When game developers market their game code to other game developers
Federal Communications Commission
5. People with the ___________________ learn the most from the media
Pay for placement
Male
Largest amount of knowledge
Intentional
6. What is it called when a digital game player is focused on steps in a process to a greater accomplishment?
Telescoping
A digital game player's focus on steps in the process
Opportunities vs addictions & goals
Stereotypes
7. Where does the term wiki come from?
Desensitization
Hawaiian word wikiwiki
Media and personal
Shared commons & need for social networking & attraction of advertising support
8. according to the textbook & which occupation is the most prevalent in the television world?
When whole segments of the population are ignored
An informed decision
65+ years of age
Medical workers
9. Media ownership has big impact on...
Immediate and long-term
Media content
Displacement of other activities
60%
10. What is a baseline effect?
Concentration & consolidation & centralization
The typical level of risk for an effect
Factual and social
When you focus on the steps in the process
11. What is the long-term emotional effect?
Text & television
High paid
Desensitization
Conflict & climax & resolution
12. What is one of the characteristics that differentiate mass media games or video games from other mass media?
65+ years of age
They are interactive
Developmental maturities & cognitive abilities & knowledge structures & sociological factors & lifestyle & personal locus & media exposure habits
Emotional
13. When does visible stereotyping occur?
Happiness is found in having things
Try to solve the plot
Simplistic and objectionable ways
Opinions & beliefs & and values
14. Describe baseline effects.
Developmental maturity & knowledge structures & media exposure habits
Flow & telescoping
Typical level of risk for an event
Cognitive
15. what 2 major effects did the telecommunications competition and deregulation act of 1996 have?
Can be addictive
Toilets & schools & video games & etc.
Deregulation & change in content & lack of access
Media concentration & media deregulation
16. What is flow?
Federal Communications Commission
Being immersed deeply in a task that they lose track of time and place
Deceptive
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game
17. what 2 major effects did the telecommunications competition and deregulation act of 1996 have?
Shared commons & need for social contact & attraction of advertisers
Media concentration & media deregulation
Niche audiences
Horizontal
18. Describe manifest effects?
Easily noticable
Immediate
Regulate
Media concentration
19. What are the three personal factors of fluctuation?
Motivations & states & degree of identification
Vertical
Physiological
1950s
20. What are characteristics that have shaped the development of interactive media?
Good vs evil
Manifest and process
6
Shared commons & need for social connection & & attraction of advertisers
21. Example: Chris read a book about an incredible romance. the characters were beautiful & they never fought & and the weather was always perfect. after reading the book & chris's romantic relationship seemed lousy. What is this an example of?
An attitudinal-type effect
When you focus on the steps in the process
When fewer people control the media& there's a narrow range of voices
Desensitization
22. what three forces shape the development of interactive media?
Deregulation & change in content & lack of access
Long-term
Flow
Shared commons & need for social contact & attraction of advertisers
23. What is the natural ability to distinguish the signal and the noise in any message?
Stereotypes
Discrimination and poverty impacting their lives
Field independency
To compare the tragic characters & make the audience feel better
24. What is the ability to be creative?
Fluid intelligence
Long-term
State
The company that owns the platform also develops the games and distributes them
25. What is efficiency?
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26. What are the four types of niche audiences?
Explorers & socializers & achievers & controllers
We keep asking for more products
Long-term
Media content
27. What are the two types of responsibilites in advertising?
Process effects
Immediate
Social and economic
Temporary
28. Long-term effects are ________ to notice than immediate effects.
Intentional
Conservative
Harder
Media and personal
29. When a digital game has been designed well & it delivers an experience to players through what?
Medical workers
Flow & telescoping
Drama & comedy & romance & reality series
Concentration
30. What is a wiki?
Websites that allow users to add & edit material
Emotional
Whites
Conservative
31. What is telescoping?
Baseline and fluctuation
Immediate
When you focus on the steps in the process
Try to solve the plot
32. What are the 3 subgenres of drama?
Tragedy & mystery & action/horror
Fluid intelligence
Intentional
Institutions & society & individuals
33. 'Bad' language in the media is what?
State of mind & motivation & & degree of identification
Niche audiences
Governed by the FCC & includes racial slurs & includes gender slurs & can lead to severe and immediate consequences
Conflict
34. 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.
6
Can be at risk & shaped by media & own life factors
Real world vs media world
Cognitive & emotional & moral
35. What is the natural ability to distinguish the signal and the noise in any message?
Concentrated
Emotional
Field independency
60%
36. What are the six main criticisms of advertising?
Field independency
Manipulates us into buying unnecessary items & makes us too materialistic & deceptive & manipulates us through subliminal advertising & excessive & perpetuates stereotypes
Male
Penetration
37. What are stereotypes on tv?
Positive because they are easy for viewers to recognize
Establish awareness of products & existence of products
Good vs evil
Influences
38. What age is more represented on tv?
Individuals and society
Media content
Niche audiences
Younger age
39. 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?
The company that owns the platform also develops the games and distributes them
Opportunities vs addictions & goals
Conceptual differentiation
Vertical
40. according to the textbook & _____ are more likely to be represented in the television world than the real world.
African Americans
Telescoping
CEOs holding a greater concentration of power
Desensitization
41. Like other media & the internet is now mature enough to suffer from...
Concentration
Conservative
A digital game player's focus on steps in the process
Harder
42. What is a baseline effect?
When you focus on the steps in the process
Toilets & schools & video games & etc.
To compare the tragic characters & make the audience feel better
The typical level of risk for an effect
43. What government organization monitors tv and radio programming to determine if it is obscene or not?
CEOs holding a greater concentration of power
Arcade games
Federal Communications Commission
Emotional
44. What is fluctuation effect?
A temporary effect
Concentrated
65+ years of age
Can be at risk & shaped by media & own life factors
45. When a media company buys a combination of other media or non media businesses & This is what type of concentration?
Conglomerate
During an exposure to a particular message
Create successful products
Broadcasters to serve the public interest & convenience & and necessity
46. what force competes against the ethnic of localism?
Field independency & type of intelligence & type of thinking & conceptual differentation
Efficiency
Recognize elements of the story
Websites that allow users to add & edit material
47. What do megamergers result in?
Federal Communications Commission
Penetration
Physiological
CEOs holding a greater concentration of power
48. Issues of concern regarding merger activity includes what?
Manipulates us into buying unnecessary items & makes us too materialistic & deceptive & manipulates us through subliminal advertising & excessive & perpetuates stereotypes
Medical workers
Deregulation & change in content & lack of access
Public interest & prevention of monopolies & promoting diversity
49. What is tragedy used for?
Flow & telescoping
To compare the tragic characters & make the audience feel better
6
Field independency
50. What are some examples of where advertisements can be found?
Media concentration
Toilets & schools & video games & etc.
Crystalline intelligence
The company that owns the platform also develops the games and distributes them