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Media Literacy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the ability to memorize facts?






2. 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






3. What are the 3 subgenres of drama?






4. Explain localism






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






6. What are the two main components in the demographics pattern?






7. What marital status is more represented on tv?






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






9. 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.






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






11. 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...






12. What are the 3 developmental maturities?






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






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






15. What is the long-term emotional effect?






16. What are the four cognitive abilities?






17. according to the textbook & _____ are more likely to be represented in the television world than the real world.






18. What did the Communications Act of 1934 require?






19. What percentage of video games earn a profit?






20. What age is more represented on tv?






21. What is a baseline effect?






22. What are the two competing values?






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






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






25. What gender is more popular on tv?






26. What is the process of flow?






27. Creators use the formula to do what?






28. The intended effects of ads include what?






29. What is telescoping?






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






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






32. What is a physiological effect?






33. When does visible stereotyping occur?






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






35. What is Web 2.0?






36. What must happen during television before commercial break?






37. What are the four genres in the formula?






38. What are the three types of concentration?






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






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






41. What are the two types of media effects?






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






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






44. Many media effects are...






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






46. Where does the term wiki come from?






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






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






49. 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?






50. Name the two types of process effects?