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Media Literacy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When a digital game has been designed well & it delivers an experience to players through what?






2. Your _______ when you consume media content can alter your perception of and reaction to the content?






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






4. What are the 3 media factors in fluctuation?






5. What is the ability to memorize facts?






6. Give an example of the content of messages






7. What are the four genres in the formula?






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






9. 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.






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






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






12. What percent of a typical newspaper is advertising?






13. 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?






14. What is a physiological effect?






15. What are the 3 subgenres of drama?






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






17. What is the most prevalent media effect?






18. Media ownership has big impact on...






19. What is WOW?






20. Who does marketing target?






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






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






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






24. What are stereotypes on tv?






25. 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?






26. What are the six baseline influencing factors?






27. What socioeconomic status is more represented?






28. The number of ads for _______________ increases each year






29. What socioeconomic status is more represented?






30. What are the four controversial content elements?






31. In what way (s) does advertising make us too materialistic?






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






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






34. What is a mystery?






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






36. What does attitudinal effects create and shape?






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






38. What are the 3 subgenres of drama?






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






40. If you watch an action packed movie and your heart races & you are experiencing what type of emotion?






41. What are the three types of concentration?






42. What is the long-term emotional effect?






43. What is the middleware market?






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






45. What was the first form of media games?






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






47. What are the two types of thinking?






48. What is the long-term behavioral effect?






49. What is telescoping?






50. Describe fluctuation effects.