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Media Literacy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What does localism serve the needs of?






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






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






4. what types of audiences have marketers of digital games identified as?






5. Unintentional effects often occur when we are in a state of...






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






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






8. What are the 3 developmental maturities?






9. What are the two types of thinking?






10. What is a physiological effect?






11. What is tragedy used for?






12. What gender is more popular on tv?






13. What is a baseline effect?






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






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






16. Explain localism






17. What is the ability to be creative?






18. What are the two competing values?






19. What are the two types of thinking?






20. What are the two types of media effects?






21. Give an example of the cognitive complexity of content






22. What is action/horror?






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






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






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






26. What are the two types of intelligence?






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






28. What are the three elements to a general story formula?






29. 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?






30. ________ are beneficial because they allow for the creation of collective knowledge






31. What are the four genres in the formula?






32. What are the three parts of efficiency?






33. What are the two main forms of stereotyping?






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






35. What are the three elements to a general story formula?






36. In what 6 ways is advertising deceptive?






37. Describe fluctuation effects.






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






39. In order to appeal to audiences & most stories begin with what?






40. What are the four cognitive abilities?






41. What are the two types of intelligence?






42. What occupation is more represented on tv?






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






44. What was significant about the Communications Act 1934?

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45. What is flow?






46. What ethnicity is overrepresented on tv?






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






48. What is subliminal advertising






49. When does a digital game player get deeply immersed in the game and loses all track of time and place?






50. when does immediate effects occur?