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Media Literacy

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1. What was significant about the Communications Act 1934?

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






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






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






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






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






7. What is the long-term emotional effect?






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






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






10. what type of health patterns are there?






11. What is our personal locus made up of?






12. 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.






13. 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...






14. What does a cognitive-effect means?






15. 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






16. 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?






17. What are stereotypes on tv?






18. What is the middleware market?






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






20. The video industry has 'a good deal of vertical integration'. What does this mean?






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






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






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






24. Describe fluctuation effects.






25. What are the four cognitive abilities?






26. What is a mystery?






27. what three forces shape the development of interactive media?






28. What is Web 2.0?






29. What are the two types of process effects?






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






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






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






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






34. Media ownership has big impact on...






35. what three forces shape the development of interactive media?






36. Values that are reflected in entertainment messages include what?






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






38. What are the three parts of efficiency?






39. What are some fluctuation factors?






40. What are the two types of thinking?






41. What percent of a typical newspaper is advertising?






42. Describe manifest effects?






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






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






45. When one media company buys companies that are buyers or suppliers to create integration in the production and distribution of messages & what type of concentration is this?






46. 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.






47. What does MMORPG stand for?






48. Give an example of the cognitive complexity of content






49. What must happen during television before commercial break?






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