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Media Literacy

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1. What are the two main forms of stereotyping?






2. What was the biggest deal between any two media companies?






3. What do megamergers result in?






4. What are stereotypes on tv?






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






6. What are the two types of intelligence?






7. What are the three parts of efficiency?






8. What is a wiki?






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






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






11. What is one of the characteristics that differentiate mass media games or video games from other mass media?






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






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






14. Describe manifest effects?






15. What are the 3 subgenres of drama?






16. What are the three parts of efficiency?






17. What was significant about the Communications Act 1934?

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






19. ________ are beneficial because they allow for the creation of collective knowledge






20. what force competes against the ethnic of localism?






21. example: when Ryan listened to patriotic music & he got shivers up his spine. This is an example of what?






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






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






24. what force competes against the ethnic of localism?






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






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






27. What are the two types of thinking?






28. What is flow?






29. What must happen during television before commercial break?






30. What is telescoping?






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






32. What is puffery?






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






34. What are the two timing factors?






35. 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?






36. What percent of a typical newspaper is advertising?






37. What does attitudinal effects create and shape?






38. What are the four cognitive abilities?






39. 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?






40. What is the ability to memorize facts?






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. Name the two types of process effects?






43. What is a mystery?






44. What marital status is more represented on tv?






45. Give an example of the content of messages






46. The number of ads for _______________ increases each year






47. Describe baseline effects.






48. What is subliminal advertising






49. 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?






50. What are the two long-term attitudinal effects?