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Media Literacy

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1. What happens in the media deregulation?






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






3. What are the two types of intelligence?






4. What eliminated the legal barrier to competition across markets?






5. What does attitudinal effects create and shape?






6. what type of health patterns are there?






7. What is the long-term behavioral effect?






8. Describe baseline effects.






9. what force competes against the ethnic of localism?






10. What does a cognitive-effect means?






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






12. when does immediate effects occur?






13. When creating a new tv series & producers must work around various constraints. What are some constraints?






14. What are the three parts of efficiency?






15. What are the six baseline influencing factors?






16. What is Web 2.0?






17. The intended effects of ads include what?






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






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






20. What are the three parts of efficiency?






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?






22. ________ are beneficial because they allow for the creation of collective knowledge






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






24. 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...






25. What is WOW?






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






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






28. 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?






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






30. Describe fluctuation effects.






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






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






33. Who does marketing target?






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






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






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






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






38. What two types of information is cognitive made up of?






39. A macro-type media effect refers to what?






40. When does a digital game player get deeply immersed in the game and loses all track of time and place?






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






42. Describe manifest effects?






43. What are the two main forms of stereotyping?






44. What is subliminal advertising






45. What is fluctuation effect?






46. When does invisible stereotyping occur?






47. 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?






48. ______ are the influences we experience constantly from our exposure to media messages?






49. if you ever watch a newscast and come away with helpful information & you are experiencing what type of effect?






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