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Media Literacy

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






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






3. What are the two timing factors?






4. 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?






5. What is fluctuation effect?






6. The business trend to consolidate has grown stronger than the government's impulse to...






7. What are the two competing values?






8. 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?






9. What percent of a typical newspaper is advertising?






10. Describe baseline effects.






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






12. What is action/horror?






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






14. What is a mystery?






15. What percentage of video games earn a profit?






16. Creators use the formula to do what?






17. 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






18. when one media company buys smaller companies of the same type & what type of concentration is this?






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






20. What must happen during television before commercial break?






21. What is baseline effects?






22. What does a cognitive-effect means?






23. what force competes against the ethnic of localism?






24. When a media company buys a combination of other media or non media businesses & This is what type of concentration?






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






26. What was it when ownership rules were relaxed?






27. What are some fluctuation factors?






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






29. What is WOW?






30. when one media company buys smaller companies of the same type & what type of concentration is this?






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






32. What are the two main forms of stereotyping?






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






34. What does the personal locus do?

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35. Many media effects are...






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






37. _______________ are societal changes that occur over a long period of time.






38. What are examples of baseline factors?






39. What are the two main forms of stereotyping?






40. What are the 3 subgenres of drama?






41. After regularly consuming media & if you believe that the world is a mean place & you are experiencing what type of effect?






42. The three forces that have shaped the development of the interactive mass media






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






44. What is a baseline effect?






45. Which type of violence is most prevalent on television?






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






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






48. 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?






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






50. What is a mystery?