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Media Literacy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is tragedy used for?






2. Describe baseline effects.






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






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






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






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






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






8. What do interactive games have the power to do?






9. What is the long-term behavioral effect?






10. What is Web 2.0?






11. What is action/horror?






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






13. when does immediate effects occur?






14. In tv & gays are what?






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






16. ________________ are used in entertainment content because it is a way for audience members to access information quickly when introduced to a character






17. What is localism?






18. what force competes against the ethnic of localism?






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






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






21. 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.






22. What are the 3 developmental maturities?






23. What are the three personal factors of fluctuation?






24. Media ownership has big impact on...






25. Although African Americans are represented on television & portrayals rarely include....






26. What is the ability to be creative?






27. In the formula & What are the 2 constraints?






28. What are the 3 subgenres of drama?






29. Many media effects are...






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






31. The pattern of the population of television characters is ______ the pattern of people in the real world






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






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






34. What is the process of flow?






35. Like other media & the internet is now mature enough to suffer from...






36. What are the two types of process effects?






37. What are the three parts of efficiency?






38. Like media programming companies & advertising agencies are also...






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






40. In order to become media literate in interactive media & what do we need to establish?






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






42. When did megamergers become popular?






43. Over time & the government has been _______________ with regard to who controls the media






44. What does attitudinal effects create and shape?






45. Name the two types of process effects?






46. What was it when ownership rules were relaxed?






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






48. In order to become media literate in interactive media & what do we need to establish?






49. What does localism serve the needs of?






50. What must happen during television before commercial break?