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Media Literacy

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1. What are the three personal factors of fluctuation?






2. What is the natural ability to distinguish the signal and the noise in any message?






3. Give an example of the content of messages






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






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






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






7. What is the ability to be creative?






8. What are the two timing factors?






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






10. What do megamergers result in?






11. What is baseline effects?






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






13. What gender is more popular on tv?






14. Popular criticism about advertising includes what?

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15. What does the personal locus do?

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






17. what happens in the media concentration?






18. In the formula & What are the 2 constraints?






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






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






21. when one media company buys smaller companies of the same type & what type of concentration is this?






22. People with the ___________________ learn the most from the media






23. Give an example of the cognitive complexity of content






24. What is a baseline effect?






25. The internet is considered a viral spiral because it _________ innovation due to its network structure






26. What are the four cognitive abilities?






27. What are the two types of thinking?






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






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






30. Describe fluctuation effects.






31. 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






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






33. What does MMORPG stand for?






34. What are the two types of responsibilites in advertising?






35. If you watch an action packed movie and your heart races & you are experiencing what type of emotion?






36. what force competes against the ethnic of localism?






37. What happens in the media deregulation?






38. What age is more represented on tv?






39. What are the two types of intelligence?






40. Describe manifest effects?






41. What is WOW?






42. Who does marketing target?






43. Popular criticism about advertising includes what?

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44. 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?






45. What do megamergers result in?






46. What is Web 2.0?






47. Although African Americans are represented on television & portrayals rarely include....






48. In what 6 ways is advertising deceptive?






49. What are the two types of thinking?






50. What are the two types of intelligence?