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Media Literacy

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1. What are the four controversial content elements?






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






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






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






5. What do megamergers result in?






6. What is a physiological effect?






7. What is the long-term behavioral effect?






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






9. Many media effects are...






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






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






12. Explain localism






13. What is a physiological effect?






14. When does visible stereotyping occur?






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






16. What are the three parts of efficiency?






17. What is a baseline effect?






18. After regularly consuming media & if you believe that the world is a mean place & you are experiencing what type of effect?






19. Describe manifest effects?






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






21. What percentage of video games earn a profit?






22. What are the four cognitive abilities?






23. The video industry has 'a good deal of vertical integration'. What does this mean?






24. What eliminated the legal barrier to competition across markets?






25. What does MMORPG stand for?






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






27. What is tragedy used for?






28. What are the four types of niche audiences?






29. What are the two types of intelligence?






30. What is fluctuation effect?






31. Which type of violence is most prevalent on television?






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






33. What is a baseline effect?






34. What are the two types of media effects?






35. _______________ are societal changes that occur over a long period of time.






36. ________________ are used in entertainment content because it is a way for audience members to access information quickly when introduced to a character






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






38. What are the three types of concentration?






39. What occupation is more represented on tv?






40. As advertising agencies become more concentrated & they become more interested in working with a ______ variety of companies and products






41. Where does the term wiki come from?






42. As advertising agencies become more concentrated & they become more interested in working with a ______ variety of companies and products






43. What marital status is more represented on tv?






44. What happens in the media deregulation?






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






46. What is flow?






47. When does invisible stereotyping occur?






48. What is action/horror?






49. What is puffery?






50. What is the process of flow?