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Media Literacy

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1. What are the two types of process effects?






2. What is a wiki?






3. What is tragedy used for?






4. What is subliminal advertising






5. What was significant about the Communications Act 1934?

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






7. What is localism?






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






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






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






11. What percentage of video games earn a profit?






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






13. What socioeconomic status is more represented?






14. What socioeconomic status is more represented?






15. What are the 3 media factors in fluctuation?






16. What does the personal locus do?

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17. In tv & gays are what?






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






19. Who does marketing target?






20. 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?






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






22. What happens in the media deregulation?






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






24. Issues of concern regarding merger activity includes what?






25. Explain localism






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






27. What gender is more popular on tv?






28. What is telescoping?






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






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






31. what happens in the media concentration?






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






33. The pattern of the population of television characters is ______ the pattern of people in the real world






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






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






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






37. Give an example of the cognitive complexity of content






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






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






40. What happens in the media deregulation?






41. What is our personal locus made up of?






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






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






44. Give an example of the content of messages






45. What are the two timing factors?






46. What are the two types of thinking?






47. What are the 3 developmental maturities?






48. What are the four genres in the formula?






49. What is localism?






50. when does immediate effects occur?