Task 3 Essay Presentation
- 1. To what extent should magazines be held responsible for the social ramifications of the representations they offer?
- 2. ‘shout’ is a young teen magazine, aimed at stereotypical girls. There are elements of portraying a more rebellious teenager.. The masthead ‘shout’ has connotations of making a stand and going against the rules; implying that’s what they think teen girls should Cover line ‘8 steps to do kissable lips!’ is an article that shouldn’t be on young teen’s magazines Having Taylor Momsen as the main image who is known for becoming a rebellious teen, Representation of being part of a rock band. She boys – article on is pictured wearing heavy them make up, and young girls reading this would see her as a role model, and it is possible they would copy this, making them grow up too fast
- 3. Cosmo girl is a teen version of Cosmopolitan, perhaps a watered down magazine of what the regular Cosmopolitan content would have, but ‘girl’ looks like it has still there are elements which aren’t suitable for teens to be consuming been written with a pencil connoting the target audience – younger girls This cover line concentrates on the appearance of Megan Fox is the main girls, and their image, globally seen as a perception on the beautiful actress and term ‘hot’ – how personality, which girls reading this young girls would aspire should look to look like and see her as an influential role model. ‘Beauty’ is said to be what she talks about with the magazine, connoting the young Cover line ‘I caught girls reading this would him cheating’ isn’t follow what she says suitable for the about the subject target audience of this magazine, promoting the wrong sort of content for a teen magazine
- 4. Seventeen is the Kendall and Kylie name of the Jenner are the main magazine, telling us image, widely known the age of the target as being part of the audience good looking Kardashian family, girls a teenager would idolize and feel Cover line ‘Ways to Look they have to look Pretty’ feeding the wrong good to be successful ideas into a teens mind, implying your looks is all you need to focus on, which is not what a teen ‘Get everything you should be want this year; Great Body’ this cover line ‘Mega Confidence’ also states and decides for implies if you have a great the reader that body, you will have everything they want confidence, suggesting is a great body, that the reader (teen) displaying the wrong should be getting a great image for a teen and body, if you don’t – you implying its what won’t have confidence they should want, not which is not a good giving them the message to send out to option young girls
- 5. Company is perhaps aimed at the older end of young teens, Whitney Port the including higher end cover girl is a fashion and celebrity popular star of gossip The Hills and The City, so represents fashion and Make-up and beauty in herself – Style are also connoting young used as cover girls reading this lines, relating to thinks that’s what beauty and they should look fashion and like too, beauty stereotypically makes you famous what girls should be interested in Ibiza is the main headline, connoting ‘Fashion’ and ‘Beauty’ are again an older words used here and young teen, as they frequently all over would be more magazines, constantly interested in the injecting the idea that these idea of going to are the most important Ibiza, known for things to concentrate on and partying without them you won’t succeed
- 6. Tulisa is the cover girl in Bliss is the name of teen magazine Bliss, this magazine, it has who has recently been connotations of this named the sexiest girl in magazine being the world, and is ‘bliss’ and the currently a judge of The content inside is the X Factor, meaning definition of ‘bliss’. It young girls would feel is aimed at the they need to look like younger teens, with her the content of music This cover line touches on the and stories representation of boys, although not intended for them to read, but how they imply first of all that the reader (a young teen, who this magazine is aimed at) will have a boyfriend and secondly that they should resemble the appearance of Justin Bieber. This makes the reader feel that number one; should they have a boyfriend/why haven’t they already and number ‘Mad for Fash’ two; why doesn’t he look like Justin Bieber. This magazine stereotyping girls implies their boyfriend should to fashion, it’s look like him which isn’t a good representation for girls’ what they should expectations of boys. be ‘mad’ about