Media and society final Flashcards
What’s Relying on accents and stereotypes characteristics for humor called?
Exoticising
In advertising, the message strategy that can be best characterized as “emphasizing the distinguishing features of the product,” such as cost or quality, is called:
Positioning
Which of the following is an example of cooperative interactive media?
Creating friends that are psychologically not too close, and not too far, is known as
The Goldilocks Syndrome
Recording a song during a live concert and subsequently disturbing that recording is known as:
Bootlegging
Readerly” texts that are straightforward and demand no special effort to understand are called_____ texts.
Lisible
A 2009 study showed that children who watched violent cartoons sometimes acted more aggressively in play. This demonstrates the_____ effect.
Boomerang
The idea that most people believe that other people are at risk but think they are free from risk is the____ effect.
Third-person
A rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is ultimately meaningless, is called:
Nihilism
