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Media Literacy

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






2. What are the two main components in the demographics pattern?






3. What is efficiency?

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4. What are the six baseline influencing factors?






5. What are the two types of media effects?






6. 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






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






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






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






10. When did megamergers become popular?






11. what three forces shape the development of interactive media?






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






13. Which type of violence is most prevalent on television?






14. What is one of the characteristics that differentiate mass media games or video games from other mass media?






15. What is a physiological effect?






16. What are the three parts of efficiency?






17. In what way (s) does advertising make us too materialistic?






18. What is action/horror?






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






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






21. What is WOW?






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






23. What are the two main components in the demographics pattern?






24. What are the two types of intelligence?






25. What ethnicity is overrepresented on tv?






26. What is telescoping?






27. Television programmers are essentially ____________ and fearful of offending viewers & so they present content that they believe reflects mainstream American values






28. What are examples of baseline factors?






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






30. What does MMORPG stand for?






31. What is the ability to memorize facts?






32. When a media company buys a combination of other media or non media businesses & This is what type of concentration?






33. What is the way people group and classify things?






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






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






36. What are the two types of intelligence?






37. What is flow?






38. 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?






39. ________________ are used in entertainment content because it is a way for audience members to access information quickly when introduced to a character






40. What ethnicity is overrepresented on tv?






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






42. When did the innovation stage for interactive media games begin?






43. 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?






44. What marital status is more represented on tv?






45. 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...






46. 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






47. What are the three states of personal factors in fluctuation?






48. What was the biggest deal between any two media companies?






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






50. When does invisible stereotyping occur?