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Media Literacy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which type of violence is most prevalent on television?






2. What is our personal locus made up of?






3. When people 'blame the media' for causing a tragic event & they are not taking into account all the factors that influence behavior and are not making...






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






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






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






7. Television programmers are essentially ____________ and fearful of offending viewers & so they present content that they believe reflects mainstream American values






8. What government organization monitors tv and radio programming to determine if it is obscene or not?






9. What are the four cognitive abilities?






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






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






12. The three forces that have shaped the development of the interactive mass media






13. What is a wiki?






14. What was it when ownership rules were relaxed?






15. 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?






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






17. What are the 3 developmental maturities?






18. What is subliminal advertising






19. Like other media & the internet is now mature enough to suffer from...






20. What is Web 2.0?






21. What are the 3 media factors in fluctuation?






22. what force competes against the ethnic of localism?






23. What was significant about the Communications Act 1934?


24. What are the four genres in the formula?






25. What are the four controversial content elements?






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






27. Name the two types of process effects?






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






29. What is a mystery?






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






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






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






33. When does invisible stereotyping occur?






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






35. What is WOW?






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






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






38. Over time & the government has been _______________ with regard to who controls the media






39. What is our personal locus made up of?






40. What is baseline effects?






41. 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.






42. What percent of a typical newspaper is advertising?






43. What are the three personal factors of fluctuation?






44. what type of health patterns are there?






45. What does MMORPG stand for?






46. What is telescoping?






47. What are the three parts of efficiency?






48. Creators use the formula to do what?






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






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