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Media Literacy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The business trend to consolidate has grown stronger than the government's impulse to...






2. Long-term effects are ________ to notice than immediate effects.






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






4. What are the two timing factors?






5. According to the _______________ is the most challenging medium for telling stories






6. What happens in the media deregulation?






7. What percentage of video games earn a profit?






8. 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.






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






10. What is telescoping?






11. what type of health patterns are there?






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






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






14. ______ are the influences we experience constantly from our exposure to media messages?






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






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






17. What is the most prevalent media effect?






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






19. What are the four controversial content elements?






20. What are the three elements to a general story formula?






21. Consumers use the formula to do what?






22. Describe manifest effects?






23. What did the Communications Act of 1934 require?






24. 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?






25. Issues of concern regarding merger activity includes what?






26. what three forces shape the development of interactive media?






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






28. What is fluctuation effect?






29. What are the four genres in the formula?






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






31. When one media company buys companies that are buyers or suppliers to create integration in the production and distribution of messages & what type of concentration is this?






32. What are the four controversial content elements?






33. What is WOW?






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






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






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






37. What are the six main criticisms of advertising?






38. What ethnicity is overrepresented on tv?






39. 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.






40. What are the two types of thinking?






41. When does visible stereotyping occur?






42. What occupation is more represented on tv?






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






44. what three forces shape the development of interactive media?






45. What is a mystery?






46. It is clear that the media is completely controlled by what?






47. What are the two types of media effects?






48. What is a mystery?






49. What is a wiki?






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