Our culture is ______.

• lacking sufficient media messages
• not impacted by media messages
• at odds with some of the media messages available
• saturated with media messages

Users of YouTube upload how much new video?

• more than 700 hours each year
• 65.5 million hours each year
• 100,000 hours in total
• 500 hours every minute of every day

The rate of production of media messages is growing at an accelerating rate because ______.

• there are more people producing and sharing information than ever before
• people think fame and fortune are easy to attain
• blogging has exploded as a medium
• politics happens more online than ever before

Approximately how many hours of video are streamed on Netflix every minute?

• 695 thousand
• 1 million
• 60 billion
• 100 billion

What reason does Tucker give for the explosive growth of data in the past few years?

• low media literacy rates
• shift away from reading books
• the device-ification of modern life
• growth of online networking

Which of the following is an example of multitasking?

• checking your phone while you wait in line at the store
• texting friends while streaming Netflix and online shopping
• taking a call while walking
• taking a break from work to check Instagram

When we feel overwhelmed, we ______.

• are able to be successful in our media message processing
• best understand our experiences
• lose opportunities to expand our experience
• tap into heightened sense levels

In our information-saturated culture, we are constantly connected to our friends, our society, and the entire world through the media.

• True
• False

Multitasking is a good-enough strategy for helping us keep up with the flood of information.

• True
• False

When a potential threat is encountered, the body is automatically made ready (increased heart rate and blood pressure) to either fight off the threat or run away to safety.

• True
• False