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  • Sexuality And Self Help Articles
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    This paper will examine the portrayals of women in two different gender-based magazines through their respective editorials, articles, and advertisements. The first magazine is titled Complete Woman. This is a general interest publication that concerns itself with issues of health, fitness, dating and relationships, romance, sexuality, and self-help articles. The second periodical, titled Women's Sports and Fitness, emphasizes both participatory and spectator sports. It includes articles about h...
  • Article And Advertisements In Marie Claire
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    One of the most prevalent forms of invisible social control is the creation and perpetuation of stereotypes. Today's society is filled with stereotypes and the media has proven to be an excellent breeding ground. Research in the stereotype domain indicates that the media can prime stereotypes, and these primed stereotypes do influence how people are later perceived. Also the research on media priming of stereotypes generally increases confidence in the generality of the media as a prime. Televis...
  • Alcohol Adverts In Certain Lifestyle Magazines
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    CW 2 Media Audiences U 0103755 Deadline 9th May Can media texts be seen as "brands" that express identity? Discuss with reference to the following: FHM. In this essay I will firstly introduce the magazine i am discussing, and talk about ideas of representations and gender in their issues, and also how it in effect they market themselves as a brand that articulates identity. FHM magazine stands for "For Him Magazine"; its core target audience is males 25-35. The magazine is produced monthly at th...
  • Women's Magazines On The Other Hand
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    In 1999, Mary De Genova and F. Philip Rice conducted an experiment to determine the differences between the covers of twelve popular men's and women's magazines. Fifty-four out of the sixty-nine covers viewed of the women's magazines contained some message about bodily appearance, whereas none of the fifty-three covers of the men's magazines viewed contained such messages (78). It seems that the media socializes women to value themselves according to their appearance and men are taught that bein...
  • Article Plays
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    Results May Vary This product advertisement, for, the fat burner, begins to mislead the reader from the very beginning. The ad came from a very popular men's magazine, Maxim, and is targeted directly at young males. It is intended to mislead the reader that it is a factual article, and not an advertisement at all, just from the look of the ad. The article uses headings and title fonts, similar to all of the other article in the magazine. This tricks the reader into starting to read the article w...
  • Advertising World
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    Suzette Rambo-Lamb Professor Goldberg Mid-Term Part I. The new approaches that advertisers applied to idealize conceptions of the body and health as analyzed by Lears, relate to the two images in many ways. The advertisers began to focus on physiological (materialistic) and psychological (vitalist) perfectionism thus encompassing everyone and often overlapping. This is very on these two magazine covers. The 'Fitness' magazine, at first glance, focuses on the physiological, health aspect but it a...
  • Popular Culture Including The Women's Magazines
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    Like it or not, popular culture is an undeniable influence on how society perceives itself. When examining mass culture, one must keep in mind the equilibrium between how much we, as a society, affect the way popular culture is constructed and to what extent popular culture influences the way we view ourselves and shapes our ideologies. An aspect of popular culture that may serve to greatly exemplify this theory of society as both the affected and the affected is the genre of magazines targeted ...
  • Changes In Male Gender Roles
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    Brian Carter 252652490 ANTH 3871 February 22, 2000 Gender Differences as Portrayed in LIFE Magazine from 1937-1960 Between the years of 1937 and 1960, LIFE underwent changes involving the portrayal of the genders. In popular literature, stereotypes and views of certain subjects are often displayed for future study. In the case of gender differences, advertisements and articles yield the best portrayal of gender stereotyping of the time. The following issues of LIFE magazine were used in this pap...
  • Glamour News Portion Of The Magazine
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    "Life Is Glamorous" Whether you wander down random roads or plan precise paths, the exciting journey we call life involves many choices. The decisions we make on a day-to-day basis affect everything. Questions such as, "What should I wear today?" or "Should I really be eating this?" are asked by many people everyday. Sure, a simple beauty magazine could probably answer both questions in one article, but in order to live a happy, healthy life there are more important questions to be resolved. Gla...
  • Publishers Of A Given Magazine
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    In the six hundred years that have passed since Johannes Gutenberg first was first credited with inventing movable type, periodical literature has become a multi-billion dollar conglomerate that rivals no other. While some may argue that it was actually the eleventh century Chinese publisher Pi Ching that devised such a system, it is no doubt that advances in technology are responsible for the growth of magazines, and in many cases, magazines are in part accountable for the growth of society. Mo...
  • Reader And Editor's Purpose
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    MEMORANDUM DATE: Febuary 23, 2001 TO: Karen Bishop Business Writing 1031 WA FROM: Student # 0016966 SUBJECT: The magazine, "Field and Stream", is oriented towards the sportsperson As you requested here is my summary of "Field and Stream" magazine, a profile of the target audience and how the magazine has been tailored to that audience. Audience: The magazine, "Field and Stream", is oriented towards the hunter, fisherman or sportsperson, male or female, 32 years of age with moderate experience an...
  • Blast Of August 6
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    A year after World War II ended, a leading American weekly magazine published a striking description of what life was like for those who survived a nuclear attack. The article, simply titled "Hiroshima", was published by The New Yorker in its August 31, 1946 issue. The thirty- one thousand word article displaced virtually all other editorial matter in the issue. "Hiroshima" traced the experiences of six residents who survived the blast of August 6, 1945 at 8: 15 am. There was a personnel clerk, ...
  • Fur Flies Again By Tamsin Blanchard
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    The statement "The structure and content of feature article reflect and reinforce the attitudes and values of their target audience" is not always true. Some feature articles challenge the attitudes and values of their target audience by presenting biased facts and opinions to make the reader view a controversial topic or issue from a different perspective. On the other hand many others support this statement and endorse the attitudes and values of their target audience, such as "Fur Flies Again...
  • Run In Muscle Car Magazine
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    Advertising – Editorials Advertising Advertising – Editorials Essay, Research Paper Advertising is a very profitable and precise business. Every person involved with the advertising business must be in touch with all of the publics likes and dislikes. That one aspect of advertising makes the profession so extremely difficult. Advertising was originally intended to inform the public of what was available to them by creating a more educated society. It was discovered that the more know...
  • Article Flirting By Joann Rodgers
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    Although I can remember the first sight accurately, I cannot for the life of me recall what happened next. Although several scientist would bet their microscopes and their salaries that sometime after the butterflies got out of my stomach and I my hands stopped sweating, that I was in actuality flirting with a complete stranger. As I watched him walk to the counter with his poor posture and his veins bulging out of his arms, I knew that there was something special about him. At that moment, I wa...

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