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Media Literacy

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1. What is localism?






2. what types of audiences have marketers of digital games identified as?






3. What is a mystery?






4. what types of audiences have marketers of digital games identified as?






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






6. What are the four types of niche audiences?






7. What are the two types of thinking?






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






9. What does the term telescoping refer to?


10. what happens in the media concentration?






11. What are the 3 media factors in fluctuation?






12. What ethnicity is overrepresented on tv?






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






14. What percentage of video games earn a profit?






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






16. What is telescoping?






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






18. What is one of the characteristics that differentiate mass media games or video games from other mass media?






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






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






21. what type of health patterns are there?






22. What marital status is more represented on tv?






23. The pattern of the population of television characters is ______ the pattern of people in the real world






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






25. what type of health patterns are there?






26. When does visible stereotyping occur?






27. What are the four controversial content elements?






28. What are the two types of media effects?






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






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






31. What do megamergers result in?






32. What are some examples of where advertisements can be found?






33. What is a belief that control of important institutions should be in the hands of many through decentralization?






34. What is the middleware market?






35. What is a physiological effect?






36. What are the two types of thinking?






37. What are the two types of process effects?






38. Name the two types of process effects?






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






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






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






42. Explain localism






43. What is it called when a digital game player is focused on steps in a process to a greater accomplishment?






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






45. Creators use the formula to do what?






46. What is tragedy used for?






47. What does the term telescoping refer to?


48. Issues of concern regarding merger activity includes what?






49. What did the Communications Act of 1934 require?






50. on television & three-quarters of all characters are between the ages of 20 and 50. which age group is the most imbalanced in terms of representation on television?