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Media Literacy

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1. Creators use the formula to do what?






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






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






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






5. 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?






6. What are the four genres in the formula?






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






8. Describe baseline effects.






9. Explain localism






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






11. What is baseline effects?






12. What gender is more popular on tv?






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






14. What are the 3 subgenres of drama?






15. What are examples of baseline factors?






16. What was it when ownership rules were relaxed?






17. What did the Communications Act of 1934 require?






18. 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






19. What is the long-term behavioral effect?






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






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






22. What ethnicity is overrepresented on tv?






23. What are the two types of intelligence?






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






25. 'Bad' language in the media is what?






26. What are examples of baseline factors?






27. What does the personal locus do?

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






29. Who does marketing target?






30. When a digital game has been designed well & it delivers an experience to players through what?






31. What is a physiological effect?






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






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






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






35. What was it when ownership rules were relaxed?






36. What gender is more popular on tv?






37. What occupation is more represented on tv?






38. What are the four cognitive abilities?






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






40. In what 6 ways is advertising deceptive?






41. What are the four controversial content elements?






42. The number of ads for _______________ increases each year






43. What is telescoping?






44. What is fluctuation effect?






45. In what 6 ways is advertising deceptive?






46. Give an example of the cognitive complexity of content






47. The intended effects of ads include what?






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






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






50. What are the four cognitive abilities?