MIT 3222 MIDTERM Exam Questions and

MIT 3222 MIDTERM Exam Questions and Answers (Solved Papers) Who defines ent.? - Correct Answers ✅content creators, audiences, profit, distribution --> complicated by political economy Moliere - Correct Answers ✅helped move ent. forward in society

• art vs. ent

people have the agency to choose, based on pleasure consequences of evolution of entertainment - Correct Answers ✅1. low cultural perception (class critique)

• framed as opposite to work and achievement
• held negative connotation
• key uses of entertainment - Correct Answers ✅1.

escapism

• leisure
• play
• utopia

characteristics of play - Correct Answers ✅- intrinsically motivated, highly attractive

• change in perceived reality, frequently repeated 1 / 3

MIT 3222 MIDTERM Exam Questions and Answers (Solved Papers) rules of TV (Neil Postman) - Correct Answers ✅no prereqs, no perplexing themes, no expositions Role of Affect (Vorderer) - Correct Answers ✅- Affective

Disposition Theory: moral approval/disapproval --> we

connect with characters based on our own experiences

• memory emotions - recalling personal experience

Representational Signs - Correct Answers ✅concrete elements (plot, costumes, characters) Non-representational signs - Correct Answers ✅abstract elements (color, texture, music, operates more freely) Dyer - Correct Answers ✅- looking at what ent. is by finding out what it is not

• not found equally in all society
• pleasure seeking vs. cultural enrichment

Vorderer - Correct Answers ✅- ent. as a form of play, form of coping with reality

• two misunderstandings
• affective disposition theory 2 / 3

MIT 3222 MIDTERM Exam Questions and Answers (Solved Papers) The problem with problems with ent. - Correct Answers ✅- capitalism positioned as solutions (i.e. scarcity --> abundance)

• validates some social concerns while invalidating others

(class, race, patriarchy often ignored) Individualism of ent. - Correct Answers ✅- contemporary entertainment media

• broadcasting to narrowcasting
• individually curated

Origins of Radio - Correct Answers ✅- bi-directional / user- to-user facilitation radio and spirituality - Correct Answers ✅- seemed like a miracle

• Sir Oliver Lodge furthered this idea
• desire to understand death

cultural developments of radio - Correct Answers ✅- radio as a social practice

• new electronic mass culture
• evolution of national identity, becomes valuable for

governments

• conversation to consumption (ads)
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