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Media Literacy

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1. What did the Communications Act of 1934 require?






2. What is the most prevalent media effect?






3. 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.






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






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






6. What is flow?






7. what happens in the media concentration?






8. what force competes against the ethnic of localism?






9. What are the two timing factors?






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






11. What is the long-term behavioral effect?






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






13. Who does marketing target?






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






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






16. Playing interactive video games & particularly MMORPGs...






17. As advertising agencies become more concentrated & they become more interested in working with a ______ variety of companies and products






18. The intended effects of ads include what?






19. Describe product claims?






20. Creators use the formula to do what?






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






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






23. What are the two types of intelligence?






24. What was significant about the Communications Act 1934?

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25. What occupation is more represented on tv?






26. what 2 major effects did the telecommunications competition and deregulation act of 1996 have?






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






28. What marital status is more represented on tv?






29. _______________ are societal changes that occur over a long period of time.






30. When does invisible stereotyping occur?






31. In what 6 ways is advertising deceptive?






32. 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?






33. What is a baseline effect?






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






35. What is the ability to memorize facts?






36. What are the two types of process effects?






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






38. What are examples of baseline factors?






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






40. What is the long-term emotional effect?






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






42. What is baseline effects?






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






44. What are the two types of intelligence?






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






46. What socioeconomic status is more represented?






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






48. Describe baseline effects.






49. What are stereotypes on tv?






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