TCOM 100: Impact Exam (Ball State
University, Waters) fully solved graded
A+
Media criticism looks at the relationship between what 3 things - correct answer ✔✔1.
Production/ producer
2. Audience
3. Content/ text
What's the point of analyzing media content - correct answer ✔✔1. Responsible production
2. Eliminate racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, etc.
3. Responsibility of producer and consumer
Cumulative Message - correct answer ✔✔The overall effect of the message being repeated over
and over again
Dogma - correct answer ✔✔A set of beliefs provided by an ideological system;
Ex. we don't lick dirty cars, don't lick your own poop
Ideology - correct answer ✔✔A collection of beliefs held by a group that shape the way they
think and act
* They can be religious, moral, ethical, etc
Infantilization - correct answer ✔✔Presenting adults in a child- like way
, Gender - correct answer ✔✔The way we understand sex, categorize
Heteronormativity - correct answer ✔✔A system that excludes all pair bonds outside
heterosexual men and women
Hyper-masculinity - correct answer ✔✔An exaggerated version of a very narrow idea of what it
means to be a man
Hyper-ritualization - correct answer ✔✔An extreme depiction of a distorted ideal of reality
Latent Messages - correct answer ✔✔The underlying message of the text
* You have to work for it to figure it out
Manifest Message - correct answer ✔✔The obvious message
Sex - correct answer ✔✔Biological
Simulacrum - correct answer ✔✔A copy of an idealized image that never existed
Ex. The dove image of the lady
Broadcast criticism in the first 3 decades - correct answer ✔✔1. Technical study of delivery
systems
2. No discussion of content3. Newspapers commented on quality of broadcast
University, Waters) fully solved graded
A+
Media criticism looks at the relationship between what 3 things - correct answer ✔✔1.
Production/ producer
2. Audience
3. Content/ text
What's the point of analyzing media content - correct answer ✔✔1. Responsible production
2. Eliminate racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, etc.
3. Responsibility of producer and consumer
Cumulative Message - correct answer ✔✔The overall effect of the message being repeated over
and over again
Dogma - correct answer ✔✔A set of beliefs provided by an ideological system;
Ex. we don't lick dirty cars, don't lick your own poop
Ideology - correct answer ✔✔A collection of beliefs held by a group that shape the way they
think and act
* They can be religious, moral, ethical, etc
Infantilization - correct answer ✔✔Presenting adults in a child- like way
, Gender - correct answer ✔✔The way we understand sex, categorize
Heteronormativity - correct answer ✔✔A system that excludes all pair bonds outside
heterosexual men and women
Hyper-masculinity - correct answer ✔✔An exaggerated version of a very narrow idea of what it
means to be a man
Hyper-ritualization - correct answer ✔✔An extreme depiction of a distorted ideal of reality
Latent Messages - correct answer ✔✔The underlying message of the text
* You have to work for it to figure it out
Manifest Message - correct answer ✔✔The obvious message
Sex - correct answer ✔✔Biological
Simulacrum - correct answer ✔✔A copy of an idealized image that never existed
Ex. The dove image of the lady
Broadcast criticism in the first 3 decades - correct answer ✔✔1. Technical study of delivery
systems
2. No discussion of content3. Newspapers commented on quality of broadcast
