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Media Literacy

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






2. When did megamergers become popular?






3. What are the two main forms of stereotyping?






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






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






6. What percentage of video games earn a profit?






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






8. interactive media games are In what stage of development?






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






10. When does visible stereotyping occur?






11. What is a belief that control of important institutions should be in the hands of many through decentralization?






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






13. What is a belief that control of important institutions should be in the hands of many through decentralization?






14. What is a baseline effect?






15. What is the process of flow?






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






17. What are the four cognitive abilities?






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






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






20. What is WOW?






21. what 2 major effects did the telecommunications competition and deregulation act of 1996 have?






22. Describe manifest effects?






23. Describe fluctuation effects.






24. Where does the term wiki come from?






25. What ethnicity is overrepresented on tv?






26. What happens in the media deregulation?






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






28. What is the ability to be creative?






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






30. What are the four types of niche audiences?






31. What percent of a typical newspaper is advertising?






32. What age is more represented on tv?






33. People who have a ________________ have more awareness of the effects process






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






35. What is the most prevalent media effect?






36. What is a baseline effect?






37. What is action/horror?






38. What are the three parts of efficiency?






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






40. What are the two types of media effects?






41. Describe baseline effects.






42. Popular criticism about advertising includes what?

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






44. What does localism serve the needs of?






45. What are the two types of thinking?






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






47. What do megamergers result in?






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






49. What is localism?






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