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Media Literacy
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literacy
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journalism-and-media
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Every day & our baseline of media effects what?
Condition audiences for repeat exposures
Being immersed deeply in a task that they lose track of time and place
Manipulates us into buying unnecessary items & makes us too materialistic & deceptive & manipulates us through subliminal advertising & excessive & perpetuates stereotypes
Can be at risk & shaped by media & own life factors
2. What are the two main components in the demographics pattern?
Institutions
A digital game player's focus on steps in the process
Establish awareness of products & existence of products
Real world vs media world
3. What is efficiency?
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4. What are the six baseline influencing factors?
Verbal violence
Opinions & beliefs & and values
Developmental maturities & cognitive abilities & knowledge structures & sociological factors & lifestyle & personal locus & media exposure habits
Niche audiences
5. What are the two types of media effects?
Manifest and process
Typical level of risk for an event
Conservative
The creation & formulas & & the social values of consumers
6. 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
Opinions & beliefs & and values
Long-term
Field independency
Focus on steps in the process
7. Media ___________ in the same way other institutions do & such as parents & friends & education & or religion.
Can be at risk & shaped by media & own life factors
Influences
Good vs evil
Viacom & CBS
8. The business trend to consolidate has grown stronger than the government's impulse to...
Cultivation & reinforcement
Condition audiences for repeat exposures
Influences
Regulate
9. the rationale for regulation in broadcasting is based on what?
High paid
Ads making implicit claims that cannot be tested for the truth
Public interest & prevention of monopolies & promoting diversity
Fluid intelligence
10. When did megamergers become popular?
Motivations & states & degree of identification
We keep asking for more products
People share their work through open web sites
1980s & 1990s
11. what three forces shape the development of interactive media?
Shared commons & need for social contact & attraction of advertisers
Vertical and lateral
Media concentration & media deregulation
Small
12. What is the natural ability to distinguish the singal and the noise in any message?
Whites
Field independency
Hawaiian word wikiwiki
Shared commons & need for social networking & attraction of advertising support
13. Which type of violence is most prevalent on television?
Condition audiences for repeat exposures
Flow & telescoping
Verbal violence
Crystalline intelligence
14. What is one of the characteristics that differentiate mass media games or video games from other mass media?
Media content
They are interactive
Concentration & consolidation & centralization
Conceptual differentiation
15. What is a physiological effect?
Immediate and long-term
Influence of automatic bodily systems & beyond our conscious control
Macro-level effects
Emotional
16. What are the three parts of efficiency?
Manifest effect
Antisocial vs prosocial
Concentration & consolidation & centralization
Conceptual differentiation
17. In what way (s) does advertising make us too materialistic?
Promotes
Typical level of risk for an event
We keep asking for more products
Automaticy
18. What is action/horror?
Long-term
Immediate
Efficiency
Good vs evil
19. People with the ___________________ learn the most from the media
A digital game player's focus on steps in the process
Largest amount of knowledge
Conglomerate
Governed by the FCC & includes racial slurs & includes gender slurs & can lead to severe and immediate consequences
20. In order to become media literate in interactive media & what do we need to establish?
Opportunities vs addictions & goals
Richer
Websites that allow users to add & edit material
Drama & comedy & romance & reality series
21. What is WOW?
Hawaiian word wikiwiki
Manifest and process
Motivations & states & degree of identification
World of Warcraft & $15 per month & an online game & most successful video game in the world
22. In order to become media literate in interactive media & what do we need to establish?
Conflict
Easily noticable
Crystalline & fluid
Opportunities vs addictions & goals
23. What are the two main components in the demographics pattern?
Cognitive & emotional & moral
Hawaiian word wikiwiki
Immediate
Real world vs media world
24. What are the two types of intelligence?
Crystalline & fluid
Crystalline intelligence
Print vs tv news
Richer
25. What ethnicity is overrepresented on tv?
Physiological
Emotional
Conglomerate
Whites
26. What is telescoping?
When you focus on the steps in the process
Crysalline and fluid
We keep asking for more products
Create successful products
27. Television programmers are essentially ____________ and fearful of offending viewers & so they present content that they believe reflects mainstream American values
Conservative
Whites
Flow & telescoping
Emotional
28. What are examples of baseline factors?
Positive because they are easy for viewers to recognize
Governed by the FCC & includes racial slurs & includes gender slurs & can lead to severe and immediate consequences
Developmental maturity & knowledge structures & media exposure habits
Hawaiian word wikiwiki
29. Like other media & the internet is now mature enough to suffer from...
Developmental maturity & knowledge structures & media exposure habits
By medium & society
Concentration
Opinions & beliefs & and values
30. What does MMORPG stand for?
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game
Determines a person's media exposure habits
State of mind & motivation & & degree of identification
The company that owns the platform also develops the games and distributes them
31. What is the ability to memorize facts?
African Americans
Crystalline intelligence
Hawaiian word wikiwiki
Sex & violence & language & sexual orientation
32. When a media company buys a combination of other media or non media businesses & This is what type of concentration?
Conglomerate
Shared commons & need for social connection & & attraction of advertisers
Physiological
Cultivation & reinforcement
33. What is the way people group and classify things?
Establish awareness of products & existence of products
During an exposure to a particular message
Conceptual differentiation
Concentration
34. according to the textbook & which occupation is the most prevalent in the television world?
Medical workers
Baseline and fluctuation
Conceptual differentiation
Field independency & type of intelligence & type of thinking & conceptual differentiation
35. When a digital game has been designed well & it delivers an experience to players through what?
Vertical and lateral
Conflict & climax & resolution
Flow & telescoping
Emotional
36. What are the two types of intelligence?
Crysalline and fluid
Cognitive
Richer
Social and economic
37. What is flow?
Being immersed deeply in a task that they lose track of time and place
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Influence of automatic bodily systems & beyond our conscious control
Deregulation & change in content & lack of access
38. 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?
Manifest effect
Easily noticable
Medical workers
Arcade games
39. ________________ are used in entertainment content because it is a way for audience members to access information quickly when introduced to a character
Ads making implicit claims that cannot be tested for the truth
World of Warcraft & $15 per month & an online game & most successful video game in the world
Stereotypes
Concentration
40. What ethnicity is overrepresented on tv?
Deceptive
When whole segments of the population are ignored
Conservative
Whites
41. example: when Ryan listened to patriotic music & he got shivers up his spine. This is an example of what?
Attitudinal
When game developers market their game code to other game developers
Physiological
Easily noticable
42. When did the innovation stage for interactive media games begin?
A digital game player's focus on steps in the process
1950s
Good vs evil
Manifest and process
43. 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?
A digital game player's focus on steps in the process
65+ years of age
3%
Institutions
44. What marital status is more represented on tv?
Happiness is found in having things
Media concentration
More married women
Positive because they are easy for viewers to recognize
45. 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...
Field independency & type of intelligence & type of thinking & conceptual differentiation
Physiological
Process effects
An informed decision
46. 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
Being immersed so deeply into a task so they lose track of all time and place
Create successful products
Individuals and society
Long-term
47. What are the three states of personal factors in fluctuation?
African Americans
Psychological & emotional & cognitive
Simplistic and objectionable ways
Strong personal locus
48. What was the biggest deal between any two media companies?
Field independency
Viacom & CBS
Emotional
Media content
49. What is the natural ability to distinguish the singal and the noise in any message?
Conservative
Immediate and long-term
Try to solve the plot
Field independency
50. When does invisible stereotyping occur?
Field independency
Institutions
When whole segments of the population are ignored
Individuals and society