LeaB Media Blog (Mr Pall)

1) Writer's Edit journal article 1.) An independent print magazine is where publication is produced without solid financial backing or large control, it is the opposite of mainstream publishing conglomerates. 2.) Hamilton (2013) suggests that independent magazines within the digital age will "thrive even as the global newspaper and book industry falter". 3.) The article suggests that independent publishers use digital media to target their niche audiences by presenting snippets of exclusive interviews with highly known people like celebrities as well as displaying their front covers. 4.) The article suggests that independent magazines might be succeeding whilst global magazines publishers (like Bauer) are struggling because mainstream magazines fall into traditional norms whereas modern people crave newer and fresher means of creative expression. 5.) It is significant that independent magazines are owned and created by the same people since it means the making of a magazi...

1)  Magazines: Front cover practical task 2)   Magazines: GQ - Language and Representation 3)  Magazines: GQ - Audience & Industry 4)  Magazines: Front cover practical task LR 5)  Magazines: The Gentlewoman - Language and Representations 6)  Magazines: The Gentlewoman - Audience and Industries 7)  Magazines: Industries - the appeal of print and independent magazines

Media Magazine feature: Pleasures of The Gentlewoman 1.) The article suggests that the Gentlewoman is different to traditional women's magazines in the sense that it inspires personal style and meaningful journalism rather than superficial beauty. 2.) Gentlewoman offers the representation of modern women as undefended, professional and accomplished instead of timid objects of desire. 3.) A few key statistics in the article on the average reader are middle to upper class, middle aged, female, yearly makings of 87K and fit into A or B demographics.  4.) The Gentlewoman's Club is  an  international community for readers of the magazine. 5.) The theorist that we can apply towards the club is a rejection of Gauntlet's gender theory since it presets modern women as independent and resilient which is different to the previous traditional domestic duties and stereotypical conventions of femininity. 6.) The writer of the article suggests that they get a sense of personal...