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Media Literacy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Every day & our baseline of media effects what?






2. What is baseline effects?






3. When did megamergers become popular?






4. What are the 3 media factors in fluctuation?






5. What is the long-term emotional effect?






6. 'Bad' language in the media is what?






7. In tv & gays are what?






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






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






10. In what 6 ways is advertising deceptive?






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






12. what happens in the media concentration?






13. What is a baseline effect?






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






15. What is a mystery?






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






17. Like media programming companies & advertising agencies are also...






18. What is fluctuation effect?






19. What is a physiological effect?






20. What is subliminal advertising






21. What are the six baseline influencing factors?






22. What are the three elements to a general story formula?






23. What must happen during television before commercial break?






24. What is puffery?






25. _______________ frequently occur when you are in a state of automaticity.






26. according to the textbook & fewer than one in every _____ television shows that present sexual content will have any mention of risks or responsibilities of unprotected sex.






27. The video industry has 'a good deal of vertical integration'. What does this mean?






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






29. What are the two types of media effects?






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






31. What was the first form of media games?






32. What is a wiki?






33. Creators use the formula to do what?






34. What is telescoping?






35. What was the first form of media games?






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






37. 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






38. What are the three types of concentration?






39. What is the middleware market?






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






41. What happens in the media deregulation?






42. What are the four types of niche audiences?






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






44. What are the four cognitive abilities?






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






46. 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...






47. 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?






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






49. What are the four cognitive abilities?






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?