Exam 12: Effect of Media on Community and Everyday Culture

One purpose of media literacy is to give us more control over interpretations.

At what age do people typically become media literate?

Cultivation research has demonstrated that the observable, measurable, independent contributions of television to the culture are relatively small.

The Violence Index demonstrated that year-to-year, the amount of violence on network TV continued to decline, most likely because of growing parental dissatisfaction.

Cultivation analysis's 3-Bs of television are blurring, bending, and blending.

The annual content analysis of a sample week of network television prime-time fare designed to demonstrate, from season to season, how much violence was present in that programming is called the Cultivation Index.

Cultivation primarily occurs in two ways. One, ______, describes the process whereby, especially for heavier viewers, television's symbols monopolize and dominate other sources of information and ideas about the world.

Social capital theorists frequently cite the findings from news production research to support their positions.

Resonance is people's tendency to accept information that confirms their beliefs and dismiss information that does not.

Despite its ongoing value to the discipline, Cultivation Analysis remains a TV violence-specific theory with little to say about the effects of other forms of content.

Most Americans know all or most of their neighbors.

______ argues that there are important benefits, such as trust, cooperation, and reciprocity, that flow from involvement in various social networks.

__________ are efforts to reduce harmful effects of the media by informing the audience about one or more aspects of the media, thereby influencing media-related beliefs and attitudes, and ultimately preventing risky behaviors.

Discursive activities are parents' intentional efforts to direct their children away from the technologies themselves, perhaps by encouraging them to go outside, play sports, join clubs, or other healthier or beneficial activities.

Among the several parental mediation media literacy interventions is _______, talking with children about television content.

Cultivation analysis's four-step process to measure the impact of television on the culture includes message system analysis, which is _________.

Cultivation researchers argue that television's major cultural function is to stabilize social patterns and to cultivate resistance to change. As such, it is fair to label Cultivation Analysis a __________ theory.

According to cultivation researchers, because of television's accessibility and availability, it has become the chief creator of "synthetic cultural patterns for the most heterogeneous mass publics in history, including large groups that have never shared in any common public message systems." As such, they say it is ______.

Cultivation researchers believe that television is essentially and fundamentally different from other forms of mass media.

Yes, there may be a lot of fake news on the Internet, but few users are fooled into believing it and passing it on.