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Media Literacy

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1. Describe manifest effects?






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






3. What are the 3 subgenres of drama?






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






5. What do interactive games have the power to do?






6. What is baseline effects?






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






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






9. In tv & gays are what?






10. 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?






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






12. What is the long-term behavioral effect?






13. What does MMORPG stand for?






14. What are the six baseline influencing factors?






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






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






17. What are the four cognitive abilities?






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






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






20. When does invisible stereotyping occur?






21. 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






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






23. Consumers use the formula to do what?






24. The internet is considered a viral spiral because it _________ innovation due to its network structure






25. what 2 major effects did the telecommunications competition and deregulation act of 1996 have?






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






27. What was it when ownership rules were relaxed?






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






29. What is telescoping?






30. What is fluctuation effect?






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






32. What did the Communications Act of 1934 require?






33. What socioeconomic status is more represented?






34. What are the six main criticisms of advertising?






35. What does the personal locus do?

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






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






38. Popular criticism about advertising includes what?

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39. What does MMORPG stand for?






40. The intended effects of ads include what?






41. What are the two types of intelligence?






42. Unintentional effects often occur when we are in a state of...






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






44. Media ownership has big impact on...






45. What must happen during television before commercial break?






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






47. according to the textbook & _____ are more likely to be represented in the television world than the real world.






48. Issues of concern regarding merger activity includes what?






49. What is our personal locus made up of?






50. Playing interactive video games & particularly MMORPGs...