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Media Literacy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is a wiki?






2. What was it when ownership rules were relaxed?






3. What is the long-term behavioral effect?






4. What is puffery?






5. What was the first form of media games?






6. What is flow?






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






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






9. Many media effects are...






10. What are the two types of media effects?






11. What occupation is more represented on tv?






12. What age is more represented on tv?






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






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






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






16. What marital status is more represented on tv?






17. What are the 3 subgenres of drama?






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






19. What is the long-term behavioral effect?






20. What is a baseline effect?






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






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






23. the rationale for regulation in broadcasting is based on what?






24. What does the personal locus do?

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25. When creating a new tv series & producers must work around various constraints. What are some constraints?






26. What is telescoping?






27. What was significant about the Communications Act 1934?

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






29. When creating a new tv series & producers must work around various constraints. What are some constraints?






30. What does the term telescoping refer to?

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31. What is the ability to be creative?






32. _______________ frequently occur when you are in a state of automaticity.






33. Popular criticism about advertising includes what?

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






35. to end up at the top of a Google search & a website must what?






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






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






38. In what 6 ways is advertising deceptive?






39. What is WOW?






40. The number of ads for _______________ increases each year






41. What must happen during television before commercial break?






42. 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






43. 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?






44. What are the two types of intelligence?






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






46. What are the three parts of efficiency?






47. What does the personal locus do?

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48. 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.






49. What do megamergers result in?






50. There is a trend of ______________ of ownership in the media