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Media Literacy

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1. When did megamergers become popular?






2. Every day & our baseline of media effects what?






3. the two most dominant genres in prime-time television from the 1970s-1990s were what?






4. What is the ability to be creative?






5. Give an example of the content of messages






6. What are the four types of niche audiences?






7. Name the two types of process effects?






8. 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?






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






10. What was the first form of media games?






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






12. The number of ads for _______________ increases each year






13. What was significant about the Communications Act 1934?

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14. What did the Communications Act of 1934 require?






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






16. When did megamergers become popular?






17. When a digital game has been designed well & it delivers an experience to players through what?






18. What is a wiki?






19. What is WOW?






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






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






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






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






24. What age is more represented on tv?






25. what happens in the media concentration?






26. ______ are the influences we experience constantly from our exposure to media messages?






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






28. When does visible stereotyping occur?






29. What socioeconomic status is more represented?






30. What are the four types of niche audiences?






31. What are the two timing factors?






32. Popular criticism about advertising includes what?

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33. What are characteristics that have shaped the development of interactive media?






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






35. What are the four cognitive abilities?






36. What are the two competing values?






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






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






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






40. Media ownership has big impact on...






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






42. 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...






43. What was it when ownership rules were relaxed?






44. What is the most prevalent media effect?






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






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






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






48. What government organization monitors tv and radio programming to determine if it is obscene or not?






49. What are the two types of thinking?






50. What are the two types of intelligence?