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Media Literacy

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






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






3. what type of health patterns are there?






4. What does a cognitive-effect means?






5. What is the long-term emotional effect?






6. What happens in the media deregulation?






7. 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?






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






9. The intended effects of ads include what?






10. What are the six baseline influencing factors?






11. _______________ frequently occur when you are in a state of automaticity.






12. Creators use the formula to do what?






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






14. The media can have long and short term effects on what?






15. What are the four genres in the formula?






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






17. What does the personal locus do?

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18. What is action/horror?






19. What is puffery?






20. Like media programming companies & advertising agencies are also...






21. What are the two types of media effects?






22. When does invisible stereotyping occur?






23. 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?






24. What percent of a typical newspaper is advertising?






25. Although African Americans are represented on television & portrayals rarely include....






26. What are the three personal factors of fluctuation?






27. What are the 3 subgenres of drama?






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






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






30. What occupation is more represented on tv?






31. what types of audiences have marketers of digital games identified as?






32. What is a wiki?






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






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






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






36. What are some fluctuation factors?






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






38. What percentage of video games earn a profit?






39. What is an effect that happens during exposure to the media messages?






40. What are the four cognitive abilities?






41. Who does marketing target?






42. When does invisible stereotyping occur?






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






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






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






46. What was significant about the Communications Act 1934?

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47. When does a digital game player get deeply immersed in the game and loses all track of time and place?






48. What are the four cognitive abilities?






49. What does the personal locus do?

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50. What is fluctuation effect?