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Media Literacy

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1. 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?






2. example: when Ryan listened to patriotic music & he got shivers up his spine. This is an example of what?






3. What is fluctuation effect?






4. What are the three personal factors of fluctuation?






5. What percent of a typical newspaper is advertising?






6. Creators use the formula to do what?






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






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






9. What is the long-term emotional effect?






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






11. What occupation is more represented on tv?






12. What gender is more popular on tv?






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






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






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






16. What is action/horror?






17. What percentage of video games earn a profit?






18. What is the most prevalent media effect?






19. What does the personal locus do?

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20. What are the two types of thinking?






21. Popular criticism about advertising includes what?

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22. What is the most prevalent media effect?






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






24. What is a wiki?






25. what force competes against the ethnic of localism?






26. What is fluctuation effect?






27. What are the four genres in the formula?






28. What is flow?






29. Describe fluctuation effects.






30. Name the two types of process effects?






31. what happens in the media concentration?






32. What must happen during television before commercial break?






33. Many media effects are...






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






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






36. What are the two major effects from the telecommunications competition & deregulation act of 1996?






37. What does a cognitive-effect means?






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






39. 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...






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






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






42. Media ownership has big impact on...






43. What are the two types of media effects?






44. Issues of concern regarding merger activity includes what?






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






46. When did megamergers become popular?






47. What is WOW?






48. What is our personal locus made up of?






49. What happens in the media deregulation?






50. Explain localism