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Media Literacy

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1. 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?






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






3. What ethnicity is overrepresented on tv?






4. What are the two types of process effects?






5. What ethnicity is overrepresented on tv?






6. When did the innovation stage for interactive media games begin?






7. What are the two types of thinking?






8. What are the two types of media effects?






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






10. What are the four cognitive abilities?






11. What is our personal locus made up of?






12. Describe manifest effects?






13. What age is more represented on tv?






14. What are stereotypes on tv?






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






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






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






18. what type of health patterns are there?






19. What are the four controversial content elements?






20. What are the three parts of efficiency?






21. What is a wiki?






22. What are the two types of factors in fluctuation?






23. Many media effects are...






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






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






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






27. What two types of information is cognitive made up of?






28. What do megamergers result in?






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






30. What are the 3 media factors in fluctuation?






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






32. What was it when ownership rules were relaxed?






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






34. What happens in the media deregulation?






35. Issues of concern regarding merger activity includes what?






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






37. People who have a ________________ have more awareness of the effects process






38. if you ever watch a newscast and come away with helpful information & you are experiencing what type of effect?






39. What is Web 2.0?






40. What are some fluctuation factors?






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






42. Describe baseline effects.






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






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






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






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






47. Describe manifest effects?






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






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






50. The intended effects of ads include what?