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Media Literacy

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






2. What did the Communications Act of 1934 require?






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






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






5. what force competes against the ethnic of localism?






6. What are the three elements to a general story formula?






7. What is a baseline effect?






8. What must happen during television before commercial break?






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






10. what force competes against the ethnic of localism?






11. Give an example of the content of messages






12. What was significant about the Communications Act 1934?

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13. What age is more represented on tv?






14. When does visible stereotyping occur?






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






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






17. What are the four genres in the formula?






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






19. When does visible stereotyping occur?






20. Explain localism






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






22. What is puffery?






23. Give an example of the cognitive complexity of content






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






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






26. What are the three elements to a general story formula?






27. If you watch an action packed movie and your heart races & you are experiencing what type of emotion?






28. Name the two types of process effects?






29. If you watch an action packed movie and your heart races & you are experiencing what type of emotion?






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






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






32. What are stereotypes on tv?






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






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






35. When did megamergers become popular?






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






37. What are stereotypes on tv?






38. In tv & gays are what?






39. After regularly consuming media & if you believe that the world is a mean place & you are experiencing what type of effect?






40. What eliminated the legal barrier to competition across markets?






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






42. What are the four genres in the formula?






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






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






45. It is clear that the media is completely controlled by what?






46. The number of ads for _______________ increases each year






47. What is fluctuation effect?






48. Give an example of the content of messages






49. the two most dominant genres in prime-time television from the 1970s-1990s were what?






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






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