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Media Literacy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Like other media & the internet is now mature enough to suffer from...






2. What are the three parts of efficiency?






3. What does the personal locus do?

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4. 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?






5. according to the textbook & which occupation is the most prevalent in the television world?






6. Many media effects are...






7. What is baseline effects?






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






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






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






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






12. Issues of concern regarding merger activity includes what?






13. Who does marketing target?






14. Who does marketing target?






15. Creators use the formula to do what?






16. What are characteristics that have shaped the development of interactive media?






17. 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?






18. What are the two types of thinking?






19. Describe baseline effects.






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






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






22. What percentage of video games earn a profit?






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






24. What is a baseline effect?






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






26. to end up at the top of a Google search & a website must what?






27. What are the three states of personal factors in fluctuation?






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






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






30. Every day & our baseline of media effects what?






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






32. What marital status is more represented on tv?






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






34. What are the two timing factors?






35. Give an example of the content of messages






36. What are the two main forms of stereotyping?






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






38. What is a physiological effect?






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






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






41. What is a wiki?






42. What marital status is more represented on tv?






43. what type of health patterns are there?






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






45. Popular criticism about advertising includes what?

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46. Example: Chris read a book about an incredible romance. the characters were beautiful & they never fought & and the weather was always perfect. after reading the book & chris's romantic relationship seemed lousy. What is this an example of?






47. When does invisible stereotyping occur?






48. Describe manifest effects?






49. When creating a new tv series & producers must work around various constraints. What are some constraints?






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