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STEREOTYPICAL NERDS

Texts

1. www.wikipedia.org./wiki/merd 2. Revenge of the Nerds (Movie) 3.

- Write an analytical speech / text about the 3 chosen texts. - Write about how nerds are depicted in the media

NOTES - Generally not perceived as the “norm” - Socially inept - Bad / uninterested in sports - Physically and socially awkward - Depicted as loners by peers - White males (sometimes Asian) with glasses & /braces - Depicted as either obese or incredibly thin - Napoleon Dynamite – an example of a Nerd in popular culture - Online gaming freaks – WoW & C.S - Introverted - Study in their spare time / lots – maths, intellectual subjects - Technologically informed - Polar opposite of “Jocks” – subject to ridicule, teasing from “popular” crowds - In popular culture the stereotypical “nerd-“girl is often proposed as the ideal romantic match for the male nerd - Example in popular culture - Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson in Spiderman or Clark Kent and Lois Lane - Read lots of comic books – Spiderman, Superman, comics in which the main character is a nerd - Usually unpopular with the girls - Intelligent

Nerd-girl – - Conventionally unattractive - Unpopular / rejected by more “popular” peers - Unfashionable - Uninterested and unskilled at sports - May be feminist or post feminist, likely also into environmentalism - Shy, introverted, interpersonal - Lisa Simpson - an example of a Nerd-girl in popular culture -

Vocabulary

-1337 speak - vocabulary about technology, computers etc., very informed on how things work, names, uses, how to build etc.

REALITY TV PROGRAM

Over view

Big brother is probably the most well known reality T.V show in the world. By the use of editing and media publicity, Australia’s’ Big Brother 07’ contestants are stereotyped and made to act differently than they really do. To make the show more entertaining and keep people watching, they make the housemates loud, obnoxious and rude and show small conflicts as huge arguments.

They also use media to advertise interactive voting, to vote to evict or save a certain housemate for the cost of a text message or a telephone call. Interactivity is also shown on the nightly shows and evictions with live audiences.

Blending of genres?

Big Brother, in the past has offered up to a million dollars as a prize for the winning housemate. Friday Night Live is a weekly competition for the housemates to win a prize of an “awards room”. The shows host is made out to be a fun, new aged guy