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Media Literacy
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literacy
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journalism-and-media
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the natural ability to distinguish the singal and the noise in any message?
Being immersed so deeply into a task so they lose track of all time and place
Field independency
Deceptive
Sex & violence & language & sexual orientation
2. Describe manifest effects?
Create successful products
Promotes
Easily noticable
Goals & drives
3. What are the two types of intelligence?
Crysalline and fluid
Relaxing regulations
Medical workers
Content of messages & context of portrayals & cognitive complexity of content
4. ________ are beneficial because they allow for the creation of collective knowledge
Harder
Wikis
Condition audiences for repeat exposures
The typical level of risk for an effect
5. What does localism serve the needs of?
Concentration
Penetration
Individuals and society
Whites
6. What are the four genres in the formula?
Pseudo-claims & comparison with unidentified other & comparison of product to its earlier form & irrelevant comparisons & pseudo-survey & juxtaposition
Crysalline and fluid
During an exposure to a particular message
Drama & comedy & romance & reality series
7. What was it when ownership rules were relaxed?
Can be at risk & shaped by media & own life factors
Easily noticable
Create successful products
Media concentration
8. What are the two types of responsibilites in advertising?
Macro-level effects
Deceptive
Attitudinal
Social and economic
9. What is the ability to memorize facts?
Manipulates us into buying unnecessary items & makes us too materialistic & deceptive & manipulates us through subliminal advertising & excessive & perpetuates stereotypes
Media and personal
Influence of automatic bodily systems & beyond our conscious control
Crystalline intelligence
10. What gender is more popular on tv?
World of Warcraft & $15 per month & an online game & most successful video game in the world
Field independency & type of intelligence & type of thinking & conceptual differentiation
Shared commons & need for social connection & & attraction of advertisers
Male
11. what three forces shape the development of interactive media?
Can be addictive
Shared commons & need for social contact & attraction of advertisers
Niche audiences
Can be at risk & shaped by media & own life factors
12. What is fluctuation effect?
A temporary effect
Unintentional effects
Prescription drugs
Localism
13. What marital status is more represented on tv?
Create successful products
Horizontal
The company that owns the platform also develops the games and distributes them
More married women
14. What are some fluctuation factors?
State of mind & motivation & & degree of identification
Media content
6
Cognitive & emotional & moral
15. Media ___________ in the same way other institutions do & such as parents & friends & education & or religion.
Discrimination and poverty impacting their lives
Manifest and process
To compare the tragic characters & make the audience feel better
Influences
16. What is telescoping?
Goals & drives
Content of messages & context of portrayals & cognitive complexity of content
Field independency & type of intelligence & type of thinking & conceptual differentation
When you focus on the steps in the process
17. what type of health patterns are there?
Field independency
The media can provide us with information
Prescription drugs
Deceptive
18. What is puffery?
Immediate and long-term
Ads making implicit claims that cannot be tested for the truth
Public interest & prevention of monopolies & promoting diversity
Content of messages & context of portrayals & cognitive complexity of content
19. Creators use the formula to do what?
Create successful products
Strong personal locus
They are interactive
Opportunities vs addictions & goals
20. What eliminated the legal barrier to competition across markets?
Macro-level effects
Media deregulation
Process effects
Governed by the FCC & includes racial slurs & includes gender slurs & can lead to severe and immediate consequences
21. according to the textbook & _____ are more likely to be represented in the television world than the real world.
African Americans
Condition audiences for repeat exposures
Localism
Developmental maturities & cognitive abilities & knowledge structures & sociological factors & lifestyle & personal locus & media exposure habits
22. When does invisible stereotyping occur?
Media and messages
Media and personal
Conflict
When whole segments of the population are ignored
23. What are the four types of niche audiences?
Cognitive & emotional & moral
Explorers & socializers & achievers & controllers
Concentration
Social and economic
24. Creators use the formula to do what?
Broadcasters to serve the public interest & convenience & and necessity
Create successful products
Public interest & prevention of monopolies & promoting diversity
Ownership rules are relaxed
25. Popular criticism about advertising includes what?
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26. People with the ___________________ learn the most from the media
Can be addictive
Try to solve the plot
Largest amount of knowledge
Verbal violence
27. What are examples of baseline factors?
Developmental maturity & knowledge structures & media exposure habits
Largest amount of knowledge
Opportunities vs addictions & goals
Can be addictive
28. if you ever watch a newscast and come away with helpful information & you are experiencing what type of effect?
Cognitive
Real world vs media world
1950s
They are interactive
29. According to the _______________ is the most challenging medium for telling stories
Individuals and society
Media concentration
Concentration
Text & television
30. In order to become media literate in interactive media & what do we need to establish?
Opportunities vs addictions & goals
An attitudinal-type effect
Media concentration & media deregulation
Ads making implicit claims that cannot be tested for the truth
31. What is the process of flow?
Being immersed so deeply into a task so they lose track of all time and place
Sex & violence & language & sexual orientation
Media concentration
Niche audiences
32. the rationale for regulation in broadcasting is based on what?
Public interest & prevention of monopolies & promoting diversity
Factual and social
Medical workers
Always occurring
33. What are the 3 subgenres of drama?
Tragedy & mystery & action/horror
Field independency
Cognitive
Crystalline intelligence
34. What is the ability to be creative?
Fluid intelligence
Manifest and process
Institutions & society & individuals
Conflict & climax & resolution
35. according to the textbook & _____ are more likely to be represented in the television world than the real world.
African Americans
Required broadcasters to serve the public's interest & convenience & & necessity
More married women
Governed by the FCC & includes racial slurs & includes gender slurs & can lead to severe and immediate consequences
36. Consumers use the formula to do what?
Happiness is found in having things
Automaticy
Recognize elements of the story
Flow & telescoping
37. What is a belief that control of important institutions should be in the hands of many through decentralization?
Whites
Localism
Concentration & consolidation & centralization
Media and messages
38. What was significant about the Communications Act 1934?
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39. What is localism?
The control of important institutions in the hads of all people
Federal Communications Commission
Developmental maturity & knowledge structures & media exposure habits
Good vs evil
40. What are the 3 subgenres of drama?
Field independency & type of intelligence & type of thinking & conceptual differentation
They are interactive
Tragedy & mystery & action/horror
Penetration
41. what force competes against the ethnic of localism?
Happiness is found in having things
Vertical
Conglomerate
Efficiency
42. Every day & our baseline of media effects what?
Goals & drives
Toilets & schools & video games & etc.
Field independency & type of intelligence & type of thinking & conceptual differentation
Can be at risk & shaped by media & own life factors
43. Where does the term wiki come from?
Typical level of risk for an event
Deregulation & change in content & lack of access
Hawaiian word wikiwiki
Cognitive & emotional & moral
44. according to the textbook & which occupation is the most prevalent in the television world?
Horizontal & vertical & conglomerate
Vertical and lateral
Medical workers
Try to solve the plot
45. If you cry during a film & you are experiencing what type of effect?
Determines a person's media exposure habits
Psychological & emotional & cognitive
Emotional
Drama & comedy & romance & reality series
46. interactive media games are In what stage of development?
Penetration
Macro-level effects
Developmental maturities & cognitive abilities & knowledge structures & sociological factors & lifestyle & personal locus & media exposure habits
Baseline and fluctuation
47. When a digital game has been designed well & it delivers an experience to players through what?
Flow & telescoping
Concentration & consolidation & centralization
65+ years of age
Telescoping
48. Describe fluctuation effects.
3%
Vertical and lateral
Temporary
Localism
49. ______ are the influences we experience constantly from our exposure to media messages?
Text & television
People share their work through open web sites
Typical level of risk for an event
Process effects
50. What are the two timing factors?
Simplistic and objectionable ways
Factual and social
Immediate and long-term
Cognitive & emotional & moral