stereotypes in media

In Dorothy Nelkin’s article “The Mystique of Science in the Press” she only touches the image of scientist’s in the newspaper. Nelkin explains that scientists are described as a combination of wonder-worker and nerd. Today scientists are portrayed through newspapers, movies, television, and books. They are stereotyped by having glasses, being nerdy, geeky, boring, disconnected from life, and super intelligent. Some people might say scientists are wacko. This just means they are very …

…much power they have. If everyone knew what each and every scientist was studying would they be called scientist? I think people would consider scientist and their careers normal. People would have no fear of them, so movies would not know how to portray scientist in films. It would be very hard to describe a person or stereotype that type of person as scary as they are described now because they would be considered normal.