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Media Literacy

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1. What must happen during television before commercial break?






2. What are the two main forms of stereotyping?






3. What two types of information is cognitive made up of?






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






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






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






7. What are the six main criticisms of advertising?






8. What ethnicity is overrepresented on tv?






9. What are the 3 media factors in fluctuation?






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






11. What are the three types of concentration?






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






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






14. What are the two timing factors?






15. Although African Americans are represented on television & portrayals rarely include....






16. In what 6 ways is advertising deceptive?






17. When does visible stereotyping occur?






18. What are the four cognitive abilities?






19. What is telescoping?






20. The business trend to consolidate has grown stronger than the government's impulse to...






21. Television programmers are essentially ____________ and fearful of offending viewers & so they present content that they believe reflects mainstream American values






22. Name the two types of process effects?






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






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






25. What is a physiological effect?






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






27. What two types of information is cognitive made up of?






28. What are the 3 subgenres of drama?






29. 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?






30. what type of health patterns are there?






31. What is fluctuation effect?






32. What are the three parts of efficiency?






33. What are the four cognitive abilities?






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






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






36. What is the long-term behavioral effect?






37. 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.






38. What best reflects the effects the media has on us?






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






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






41. What does MMORPG stand for?






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






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






44. What is action/horror?






45. What is the middleware market?






46. What are the two types of thinking?






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






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






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






50. If you cry during a film & you are experiencing what type of effect?