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Media Literacy

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1. What are the two types of factors in fluctuation?






2. In tv & gays are what?






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






4. Where does the term wiki come from?






5. What is fluctuation effect?






6. What does attitudinal effects create and shape?






7. What are the two types of thinking?






8. If you cry during a film & you are experiencing what type of effect?






9. What do media exposure habits focus its attention on?






10. What must happen during television before commercial break?






11. Explain localism






12. What gender is more popular on tv?






13. what happens in the media concentration?






14. What do media exposure habits focus its attention on?






15. What is a wiki?






16. What was the first form of media games?






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






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






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






20. Issues of concern regarding merger activity includes what?






21. Describe product claims?






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






23. What marital status is more represented on tv?






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






25. What is subliminal advertising






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






27. What are the 3 developmental maturities?






28. What are the two types of media effects?






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






30. What are the 3 developmental maturities?






31. What are the four genres in the formula?






32. What did the Communications Act of 1934 require?






33. When did megamergers become popular?






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






35. What are some fluctuation factors?






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






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






38. If you cry during a film & you are experiencing what type of effect?






39. What is telescoping?






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






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






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






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






44. What was it when ownership rules were relaxed?






45. What are examples of baseline factors?






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






47. What is a baseline effect?






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






49. What is a mystery?






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