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v. States
1. State: drive or emotional reaction that occurs
in response to some temporary stimuli; short
lived
2. When viewers are aroused, their experience is
more vivid, as well as their attention more
focused
vi. Degree of Identification
1. People pay more attention to characters they
identify with
3. Media Literacy and Blame
a. A single element hardly causes an effect, there are many
influences that contribute
b. No one factor is solely responsible
c. We should not allow any one influence to be responsible
because it was not the only influence
4. Media Literacy: Controlling The Media and Effects Process
a. Low-level media literacy misleads people into a false sense
of awareness
b. To control effects one has to understand how they work
and what factors influence those workings
5. Summary
a. Media effects are always occurring since we are always
being influenced both directly and indirectly
b. Media pairs with other factors in our lives to escalate the
influence
c. We can learn to control the effects if we understand how
the process works