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Sarah Blumenberg CMC 200 – Spring 2013 Final Paper

The Construction of Intelligence in American Media: How Television Characterization Defines “Nerd” Identity to Reveal Sociological Subjugation. Sarah Blumenberg CMC 200 – Spring 2013 Final Paper. The Big Five. Topic: Intelligence Perception Focus: The Construction of the “Nerd”

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Sarah Blumenberg CMC 200 – Spring 2013 Final Paper

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  1. The Construction of Intelligence in American Media:How Television Characterization Defines “Nerd” Identity to Reveal Sociological Subjugation. Sarah Blumenberg CMC 200 – Spring 2013 Final Paper

  2. The Big Five • Topic: Intelligence Perception • Focus: The Construction of the “Nerd” • Method: Textual and Content Analysis • Target: The Big Bang Theory • Goals: To show social subjugation masked by intellectual markers, but in reality based on social fluency.

  3. Methods • Textual Analysis of the Pilot Episode • Content Analysis of the first and last episode of Seasons 1-3. • They connect in that they say similar things about how the nerd is constructed: one by more visual signifiers and one by more dialogue-related signifiers. • Additionally, I included the Pilot episode in my content analysis as well in order to connect the two further

  4. Discussion • “Othering” • “Normal” othering “nerds” • “Nerds” otheringthemselvs from “normal” • “Nerds” othering amongst themselves • Consumerism • Autism • Socially awkward VS Autism • Where is the line?

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