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Media Literacy

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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?






2. What is the ability to memorize facts?






3. What are the two types of factors in fluctuation?






4. What is localism?






5. What is a baseline effect?






6. what 2 major effects did the telecommunications competition and deregulation act of 1996 have?






7. _______________ are societal changes that occur over a long period of time.






8. Name the two types of process effects?






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






10. according to the textbook & which occupation is the most prevalent in the television world?






11. What is WOW?






12. What are the 3 developmental maturities?






13. What is the ability to be creative?






14. What is the process of flow?






15. what type of health patterns are there?






16. Creators use the formula to do what?






17. when does immediate effects occur?






18. What is the natural ability to distinguish the singal and the noise in any message?






19. Describe manifest effects?






20. What are the two competing values?






21. Like other media & the internet is now mature enough to suffer from...






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?






23. According to the _______________ is the most challenging medium for telling stories






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






25. In what 6 ways is advertising deceptive?






26. example: when Ryan listened to patriotic music & he got shivers up his spine. This is an example of what?






27. What is a mystery?






28. When does invisible stereotyping occur?






29. The business trend to consolidate has grown stronger than the government's impulse to...






30. What was it when ownership rules were relaxed?






31. What does a cognitive-effect means?






32. Media ___________ in the same way other institutions do & such as parents & friends & education & or religion.






33. What do interactive games have the power to do?






34. What are the two types of thinking?






35. What is our personal locus made up of?






36. Media ownership has big impact on...






37. Values that are reflected in entertainment messages include what?






38. What is the natural ability to distinguish the singal and the noise in any message?






39. What government organization monitors tv and radio programming to determine if it is obscene or not?






40. What best reflects the effects the media has on us?






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?






42. If you watch an action packed movie and your heart races & you are experiencing what type of emotion?






43. What are examples of baseline factors?






44. What are some fluctuation factors?






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. Every day & our baseline of media effects what?






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






48. What are the three parts of efficiency?






49. What is the natural ability to distinguish the signal and the noise in any message?






50. What is fluctuation effect?