Representation involves how identities are portrayed in media texts, focusing on characteristics like age, gender, race, financial status, and job. Certain features are highlighted and enhanced to construct representations. Representation theory examines both the processes of representation and their products, especially how identities are constructed in production and reception in relation to markers like class, age, gender, and ethnicity. Representation theorists note that representations often categorize and evaluate groups through emphasizing easily recognized features that lead audiences to draw conclusions about the represented group, usually but not always negatively.