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What is CMR ✔Correct Answer-Constructed Mediated Reality
What does CMR contribute to ✔Correct Answer-Our grasp of reality, our expectations, our actions
and the knowledge in our heads of the world, our learning about the world and ourselves.
What is an example that hits close to home ✔Correct Answer-Your resume (the version of reality
you want employers to know)
What is the motive of media constructors ✔Correct Answer-they are gatekeepers with persuasive
motives in mind
C- Constructed example ✔Correct Answer-Media production, media research
-requires effort, money, thinking, planning, designing, ect.
M- Mediated example ✔Correct Answer-mechanical or electronic devices that deliver versions of
reality
-TV, radio, internet, movies, Books
R- Reality ✔Correct Answer-How we behave based on what we see in the media, how we view the
world day to day.
Example- full of hope, greedy, selfish,
advertising has been called ✔Correct Answer-"selling the dream"
Who are gatekeepers ✔Correct Answer-host of decision makers collectively who prepare and
assemble media content and make decisions on presentations and distribution methods
What is Harold Lasswell's definition of mass media ✔Correct Answer-Who says what to whom
through which channel with what effects
"with what motive?" - Dr. Aust add on
How much of our experience is direct or based on CMR ✔Correct Answer-all of our thinking about
a situation is based completely on mass media content unless personally experienced
How is CMR pervasive ✔Correct Answer-It is readily available and difficult to avoid. We are
drenched in and bombarded by, surrounded by media exposure and media presence.
Much of our knowledge about the world comes from ✔Correct Answer-CMR rather than our own
direct, non-mediated experience of the world
Media doesn't provide us with reality instead ✔Correct Answer-they provide us with versions of
reality and with content that becomes part of our reality and influences
2. Gatekeeper is associated most with which part of the abbreviation?
(circle one letter only) C M R ✔Correct Answer-C: Constructed