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Media Literacy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The business trend to consolidate has grown stronger than the government's impulse to...






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






3. Playing interactive video games & particularly MMORPGs...






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






5. Describe manifest effects?






6. What is Web 2.0?






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






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






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






10. Media ownership has big impact on...






11. What are characteristics that have shaped the development of interactive media?






12. Creators use the formula to do what?






13. The media can have long and short term effects on what?






14. 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?






15. What is fluctuation effect?






16. What is action/horror?






17. What is the ability to memorize facts?






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






19. What are the four genres in the formula?






20. 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?






21. What percent of a typical newspaper is advertising?






22. What does attitudinal effects create and shape?






23. What are the four types of niche audiences?






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






25. What are the 3 developmental maturities?






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






27. What do megamergers result in?






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






29. In order to appeal to audiences & most stories begin with what?






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






31. What are the three personal factors of fluctuation?






32. The media can have long and short term effects on what?






33. In what 6 ways is advertising deceptive?






34. What does a cognitive-effect means?






35. the two most dominant genres in prime-time television from the 1970s-1990s were what?






36. Playing interactive video games & particularly MMORPGs...






37. What do media exposure habits focus its attention on?






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






39. What does the term telescoping refer to?

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40. What is it called when a digital game player is focused on steps in a process to a greater accomplishment?






41. Concentration & consolidation & and centralization challenges and potentially retrains the ethnic of...






42. What is baseline effects?






43. 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...






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






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






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






47. What are the three parts of efficiency?






48. what happens in the media concentration?






49. What is fluctuation effect?






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