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Media Literacy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. After regularly consuming media & if you believe that the world is a mean place & you are experiencing what type of effect?






2. What percentage of video games earn a profit?






3. What is action/horror?






4. What are the 3 developmental maturities?






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






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






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






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






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






10. What are the three parts of efficiency?






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






12. What did the Communications Act of 1934 require?






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






14. In tv & gays are what?






15. What are the two types of intelligence?






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






17. Where does the term wiki come from?






18. What are the two timing factors?






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






20. what three forces shape the development of interactive media?






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






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






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






24. Give an example of the content of messages






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






26. When did megamergers become popular?






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






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






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






30. What age is more represented on tv?






31. What is the way people group and classify things?






32. What is our personal locus made up of?






33. What is fluctuation effect?






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






35. What was the biggest deal between any two media companies?






36. What does attitudinal effects create and shape?






37. 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...






38. Give an example of the content of messages






39. According to the _______________ is the most challenging medium for telling stories






40. What does a cognitive-effect means?






41. 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.






42. Issues of concern regarding merger activity includes what?






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






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






45. What are the four cognitive abilities?






46. What ethnicity is overrepresented on tv?






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






48. What is localism?






49. The number of ads for _______________ increases each year






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