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Media Literacy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is action/horror?






2. What age is more represented on tv?






3. When people 'blame the media' for causing a tragic event & they are not taking into account all the factors that influence behavior and are not making...






4. What do megamergers result in?






5. Describe product claims?






6. What occupation is more represented on tv?






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






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






9. What is WOW?






10. ________________ are used in entertainment content because it is a way for audience members to access information quickly when introduced to a character






11. When did megamergers become popular?






12. 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?






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






14. What are the two types of thinking?






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






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






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






18. what happens in the media concentration?






19. What are the three types of concentration?






20. What are the six main criticisms of advertising?






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






22. What are the four genres in the formula?






23. What are the two timing factors?






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






25. The video industry has 'a good deal of vertical integration'. What does this mean?






26. Example: Jacob played a video game of crime life. He then joined a gang and pulled a knife on a police officer. What is this an example of?






27. Name the two types of process effects?






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






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






30. What is telescoping?






31. What are the four cognitive abilities?






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






33. What is telescoping?






34. What are the three personal factors of fluctuation?






35. What are the two types of thinking?






36. What percentage of video games earn a profit?






37. What is the ability to memorize facts?






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






39. What is telescoping?






40. What are some fluctuation factors?






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






42. What are the two types of intelligence?






43. 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?






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






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






46. What is flow?






47. What are stereotypes on tv?






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






49. What ethnicity is overrepresented on tv?






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