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Media Literacy

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






2. What is WOW?






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






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






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






6. What is the way people group and classify things?






7. Media ___________ in the same way other institutions do & such as parents & friends & education & or religion.






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






9. What is a mystery?






10. according to the textbook & _____ are more likely to be represented in the television world than the real world.






11. What is a wiki?






12. The internet is considered a viral spiral because it _________ innovation due to its network structure






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






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






15. What do megamergers result in?






16. What is the most prevalent media effect?






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






18. Popular criticism about advertising includes what?

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






20. What are the three types of concentration?






21. When does visible stereotyping occur?






22. What is localism?






23. What is action/horror?






24. What are the four cognitive abilities?






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






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






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






28. What are the two main components in the demographics pattern?






29. Give an example of the content of messages






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






31. What are the two types of thinking?






32. interactive media games are In what stage of development?






33. What does localism serve the needs of?






34. What are the two types of media effects?






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






36. Describe fluctuation effects.






37. What happens in the media deregulation?






38. What is telescoping?






39. Describe baseline effects.






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






41. What socioeconomic status is more represented?






42. What was significant about the Communications Act 1934?

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






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






45. What is the ability to be creative?






46. What is the ability to memorize facts?






47. A macro-type media effect refers to what?






48. What are the three personal factors of fluctuation?






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






50. In order to appeal to audiences & most stories begin with what?