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Media Literacy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






3. What are the six baseline influencing factors?






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






5. What are the two major effects from the telecommunications competition & deregulation act of 1996?






6. What is action/horror?






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






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






9. What are the two timing factors?






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






11. what happens in the media concentration?






12. Your _______ when you consume media content can alter your perception of and reaction to the content?






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






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






15. What is the middleware market?






16. What is a wiki?






17. what type of health patterns are there?






18. Describe manifest effects?






19. what type of health patterns are there?






20. What is telescoping?






21. What does a cognitive-effect means?






22. What does attitudinal effects create and shape?






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






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






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






26. When does invisible stereotyping occur?






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






28. 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.






29. Media ownership has big impact on...






30. The number of ads for _______________ increases each year






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






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






33. Example: Jacob played a video game of crime life. He then joined a gang and pulled a knife on a police officer. What is this an example of?






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






35. The number of ads for _______________ increases each year






36. What must happen during television before commercial break?






37. What is the middleware market?






38. What are the two competing values?






39. What marital status is more represented on tv?






40. When did the innovation stage for interactive media games begin?






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






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






43. What are the two main forms of stereotyping?






44. What does localism serve the needs of?






45. In the formula & What are the 2 constraints?






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






47. What percent of a typical newspaper is advertising?






48. When does visible stereotyping occur?






49. What gender is more popular on tv?






50. what happens in the media concentration?