Classwork

Defleur: "The media has selective influences on people."

• Young people growing up with certain media around them
• Media may influence them to be geeky about something (Sci-fi, video games, internet) 

Judith Butler: "Identity is performed through your expression."

• Geeks/Nerds can show their passion for something that isn't so popular with everyone else, which makes people associate them with geeks
• If someone is intelligent towards something e.g. computers, maths etc, they are going to express this knowledge and gradually this can form some way of representing their identity.

Problematic quote: "Media seems to reflect reality but in fact they construct it."

This quote appears to me as a problematic way of believing something. I agree with it partially, as the media does construct a lot of what happens in reality today. Whether it's youth or adults for example, the media has created many different ways of representing both generations, and the majority of which will be seen as stereotypes. The more the media creates that is based on these particular representations, the more the audience is going to reflect off them and influenced into certain ways.