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Media literacy

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The average adult spends this much time consuming media in an average day.

a)

2 hours

b)

4 hours

c)

6 hours

d)

10 hours or more

2.

The term "media" is plural for medium and can refer to multiple pathways for a message.

a)

true

b)

false

3.

The following is an example of media.

a)

TV shows

b)

Newspaper stories

c)

Snapchat stories

d)

all of these

4.

The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create and act using all forms of communication can be described as

a)

Snapchat filter

b)

Best practices

c)

Media literacy

d)

Media Monday

5.

What is the difference between media messages and media effects?

a)

Messages are the values and ideas that are promoted by the media; effects are what users get out of them.

b)

Messages are the values and ideas that users get out of the media; effects are what media put into them.

c)

Both of these

d)

Neither of these

6.

True or false: Consumers' own experiences influence how they react to media messages.

a)

true

b)

false

7.

In the text-message exchange in which a couple decides where to eat, the use of a specific name of a restaurant and a kissy-face emoji is an example of

a)

decoding

b)

deconstructing

c)

encoding

d)

entertaining

8.

Concerns about the impact of media on people led to

a)

Movie ratings

b)

Warnings on advertisements

c)

Media literacy education

d)

All of these

9.

The following is an example of media

a)

Poetry

b)

Paintings

c)

Podcasts

d)

all of these

10.

It is estimated that this many people have social media accounts.

a)

About a hundred.

b)

Almost 30 million.

c)

Almost 300 million.

d)

Almost 1.7 billion.

11.

"Access" refers to the kind of content you interact with and how you find it.

a)

true

b)

false

12.

"Evaluate" refers to the consumer's ability to determine whether a show, song, article or work of art is any good.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

"Textual determinism" is

a)

A determined effort to send a text

b)

A determined effort to read a text in class despite your teacher using Apple Classroom

c)

The idea that a message's meaning is inevitably both sent and received in its entirety every time.

14.

True or false: Two-thirds of U.S. adults get their news from social media.

a)

True

b)

False