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Media Literacy

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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?






2. What are stereotypes on tv?






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






4. what force competes against the ethnic of localism?






5. What are the two types of process effects?






6. What age is more represented on tv?






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






8. what type of health patterns are there?






9. Unintentional effects often occur when we are in a state of...






10. When a media company buys a combination of other media or non media businesses & This is what type of concentration?






11. What is a wiki?






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






13. When does invisible stereotyping occur?






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






15. What marital status is more represented on tv?






16. What is subliminal advertising






17. What are the two competing values?






18. Describe product claims?






19. What did the Communications Act of 1934 require?






20. What is subliminal advertising






21. What is the long-term behavioral effect?






22. What is Web 2.0?






23. What are some fluctuation factors?






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






25. In what 6 ways is advertising deceptive?






26. What is a baseline effect?






27. What is the ability to memorize facts?






28. 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.






29. What are the two types of intelligence?






30. What happens in the media deregulation?






31. Explain localism






32. In tv & gays are what?






33. What are the two types of intelligence?






34. What is our personal locus made up of?






35. Your _______ when you consume media content can alter your perception of and reaction to the content?






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






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






38. What do media exposure habits focus its attention on?






39. interactive media games are In what stage of development?






40. What socioeconomic status is more represented?






41. What are examples of baseline factors?






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






43. What are the six baseline influencing factors?






44. What is the most prevalent media effect?






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






46. What is a mystery?






47. What socioeconomic status is more represented?






48. 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






49. What are examples of baseline factors?






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