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Media Literacy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the three parts of efficiency?






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






3. what happens in the media concentration?






4. What occupation is more represented on tv?






5. What was the first form of media games?






6. Example: Chris read a book about an incredible romance. the characters were beautiful & they never fought & and the weather was always perfect. after reading the book & chris's romantic relationship seemed lousy. What is this an example of?






7. What are the two timing factors?






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






9. What is the natural ability to distinguish the singal and the noise in any message?






10. What is telescoping?






11. When does invisible stereotyping occur?






12. What does the personal locus do?

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






14. What is a wiki?






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






16. 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?






17. Media ___________ in the same way other institutions do & such as parents & friends & education & or religion.






18. In order to become media literate in interactive media & what do we need to establish?






19. After regularly consuming media & if you believe that the world is a mean place & you are experiencing what type of effect?






20. People who have a ________________ have more awareness of the effects process






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






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






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






24. What is the long-term behavioral effect?






25. What do interactive games have the power to do?






26. What are stereotypes on tv?






27. Who does marketing target?






28. What gender is more popular on tv?






29. If you cry during a film & you are experiencing what type of effect?






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






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






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






33. What is the ability to be creative?






34. What is Web 2.0?






35. What are the two main forms of stereotyping?






36. What is tragedy used for?






37. Issues of concern regarding merger activity includes what?






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






39. What is localism?






40. What is fluctuation effect?






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






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






43. What is the long-term emotional effect?






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






45. It is clear that the media is completely controlled by what?






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






47. What are the four types of niche audiences?






48. What must happen during television before commercial break?






49. What is an effect that happens during exposure to the media messages?






50. Every day & our baseline of media effects what?