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Media Literacy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Describe manifest effects?






2. What is Web 2.0?






3. If you cry during a film & you are experiencing what type of effect?






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






5. What does MMORPG stand for?






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






7. What age is more represented on tv?






8. What is the process of flow?






9. Consumers use the formula to do what?






10. What is the ability to memorize facts?






11. What are the two types of intelligence?






12. The pattern of the population of television characters is ______ the pattern of people in the real world






13. What is the ability to be creative?






14. The internet is considered a viral spiral because it _________ innovation due to its network structure






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






16. What did the Communications Act of 1934 require?






17. What do megamergers result in?






18. Name the two types of process effects?






19. What marital status is more represented on tv?






20. What is a mystery?






21. It is clear that the media is completely controlled by what?






22. what force competes against the ethnic of localism?






23. What are the six baseline influencing factors?






24. Issues of concern regarding merger activity includes what?






25. What is a physiological effect?






26. what types of audiences have marketers of digital games identified as?






27. Although African Americans are represented on television & portrayals rarely include....






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






29. Long-term effects are ________ to notice than immediate effects.






30. What occupation is more represented on tv?






31. Describe fluctuation effects.






32. What are the two types of media effects?






33. What are the two types of responsibilites in advertising?






34. What is a baseline effect?






35. What is telescoping?






36. What are the 3 media factors in fluctuation?






37. Creators use the formula to do what?






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






39. What must happen during television before commercial break?






40. What is fluctuation effect?






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






42. What percentage of video games earn a profit?






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






44. when one media company buys smaller companies of the same type & what type of concentration is this?






45. What are the two types of thinking?






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






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






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






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






50. 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?