Teen Magazines: Are they suitable?

To what extent should magazines be held responsible for the social ramifications of the representations they offer?

 

I think magazine should be responsible of what they publish in there magazine and it should be suitable for the age range, which in the teenage girls magazine is 10-15 year olds. There was a study done by 'The Sunday Telegraph' about how lots of teenage magazines certain sexually explicit material that may cross the industry's editorial code. Girls are being signalised in so many ways most of them the media, with games, TV, films, magazines, fashion and other industries. these are a few heading and title you get in teen magazines; Bliss: 'boosting you dating rating', 'vodka made her nightmare' and ;his secret snog thoughts' other magazine also had the same type of titles like Shout: 'hot lad issue' 'make him date you' + Sugar: 'new dress new boobs' been kissed been dissed' + 'make him fancy you' 'never have another bad snog' These are just a few line in teenage girls magazines. I have been looking it lots of teen magazine to see what is in there and I saw lots of images of topless men and men with only a object covering there bits I would expect think in a older women's magazine not a young teenage girls magazine. I also magazine have website so I thought I would look on there and i find competitions 'on how pretty you are?' where girl can post pictures of them self and get voted, girls don't have much self confidence as it is so having competitions like these are probably not making girls feel very good about their self and are not teenage girls magazine meant to do the opposite and boost their confidence and make them feel better about them self's. I read lots of teen magazines for this research and found that it feels like there is nothing to life except always looking good and pulling the hottest guys, many photos I found are not cute and girly but instead very provocative and are wearing very sexy girls clothes that I would to be found in men's magazines. Has the meaning of sexy changed? What does the word sexy mean to young girls? Is sexy different to what the writers of the magazine different to the girls of 10 to 15 years old? teenagers girls are wearing clothes that I would never thought I would see being worn on young girls, when I was little I loved dressing up in my mum’s clothes and wearing lots of pink and Barbie girly clothes, but now in magazine and on the streets I see young girls wear low tops, bras on show, short skimpy skirts, shorts and dresses and wearing leather and high heels. is the media and magazines distorting what beauty means? so in conclusion yes i think the magazine companies are responsible for what they put in there magazines.

I found this video about 'Young Girls fashion' http://www.videojug.com/film/hot-fashion-trends-for-young-girls this first video is how i would expect young girls to dress.  

And theses are the website that help me decide what i think about this subject.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/4990907/Teen-magazines-are-sexualising-readers-says-watchdog.html + http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/30544/popular_teen_magazines_and_their_possible.html?cat=25

IPC Case Study: History

History Of IPC

'IPC Media produces over 60 iconic media brands, with print alone reaching almost two thirds of UK women and 42% of UK men – almost 26 million UK adults – while our websites collectively reach over 20 million users every month.' quote from the IPC website.

Breif History Of IPC, Timeline

1853: The Field, this became one of the largest newspapers in the Europe.

1900: there had three more titles that became part of IPC those were Yachting Monthly, Cage Birds and Motor Boat.

1911: Womens Weekly became "our motto - practical and useful' by the editorial banner. And the first copies of Golfers Monthly came out.

1900's: The first magazine to be published after world war one, Homes & Gardens

1921: Ideal Homes magazine came, the new opposition to Homes & Gardens.

1926: Women & Home had appeared to the market, and had grow to a 144 page magazine in 1929.

1932: the launch of Womens Own

1930's: more magazines that were released were Caravan, Stamp Magazine and Prediction.

1940: this Womens Own, magazine caver got called war time art.

1952: there was a big music sence, so the new music magazine New Musical Express was launched now knowm as NME.

1955: after the new channel of ITV1 cam so did the magazine TVTimes.
1963: International Publishing Corporation, Newnes, Fleetway, and Odhams were all producted.
1969: The new weekly Shoot magazine was prducedwith the big world cup winning,  and other magazines that can around were Rugby World, World Soccer, Angler's Mail, and Family Circle. 
1970: Horse and Hound is producted because of the big sper of horse riding and the duke of edinburgh.
1980: Marie Claire was launched and so was 4x4, Eventing, Chat, Mizz, Motor Caravaning, Wedding & Home, Country Homes & Interiors, Classic Boat, Model Collector, Motor Boats Monthly, Practical Parenting, VolksWorld, Bird keeper.
1991: which Tv becoming big the new Whats On TV comes in
1996: Now magazine is launched
1988: NME gets its own internet site
2000: Nuts, Pick Me Up, TV Easy, LOOK, huosetoome, goodtoknow, shooting uk are all produced, and the free gaming website is made Mouse Breaker

This id the IPC website and it helped me research what IPc was all about, what it did what magazine it produced and helped me find out the history of it too: http://www.ipcmedia.com/about/

 

Skills Audit

This is my skills audit, it shows what i can and cant to and PC's and Mac's

Teenage girls, magazine covers: Essay

Magazines Aimed At Teenage Girls

I have chosen five teen girl magazines: 'Bliss' 'Top of the Pops' 'Mizz' 'Sugar' and 'Shout' that are aimed at young girls in the UK as i have chosen British magazines. Teen magazines are aimed at teens so i think the content should be suitable for teens. The first magazine in going to talk about is 'Shout' as i think this is the most unsuitable magazine of them all because of what is in there '8 steps to kissable lips' for girls that read this magazine, im guessing 10 to 14 year old there is quite a wide range and changes of a girl in those age. with a sub-heading with this on which is the most noticeable and eye catching with the bold number 8 and the different colours and fonts. There is another heading in the bottom that says 'what boys really think about us' it isn't as noticeable as the other heading but it is still on the front cover, i think this story that is in the magazine to make girl feel really self conscious about them selfs because as teenager your always thinking of what other people are thinking of you and when magazines like this want you to know what boys think about you i think its adds more pressure to that teenage girl. As i am being a big fan of the american TV show 'Gossip Girl' i started watching it when i was 14/15 because that when it started, but when i did watch it i only just thought it was suitable it is '15' certificate anyway so having one of the actors of that TV show on there is advertising and promoting young teenage girls to what the show when really its not suitable. 

The next magazine i saw something that i didn't feel should go in a teen magazine 'flirt with fashion, be the girl all the lads fancy' with this i think there wanting girl to dress really provocative to get the boys attention. there the two magazines where things stood out to me as not suitable for a teen magazine. 

But the other magazines i read as a young teenager and thought they included the right content for young girls magazines. 

Magazine And Target Audiences: Analysis

Magazine And Target Audiences

Company one of the most popular women's life style magazines in the UK. there are many conventions on this magazine that most women's magazines will have, and these show the audience

How the magazine cover appeals to women by using the conventions of cover design. Firstly the theme colour they have use light pink, navy, white and gray which are all wintery colours because it is a november episode. Another thing is by having Fearne Cotten on the front cover, Fearne is a iconic young lady that many girls/young women look up to, as she has does many jobs presenter, radio DJ, designs her own clothes with very.com.

 Compared to other magazines she is not posing in a raunchy way which shows this magazine is aimed at girls that are not so interested in looking sexy but looking good instead and fashion. this may interest different types of women. Again fearne appeals to the younger generation/ young women because they can relate to her, she is not one of those celebrities that goes out and gets drunk and drugs really she has a good reputation so a good young lady for people to aspire to unlike some other celebs.
There are lot of other conventions in the magazine like the title behind her head that is just not on women's magazine that is just a normal conventions of every magazine. Price by advertising it in a button shape makes it stand out, so more women will by it because its cheap. The sub-titles also show what appeals to women's, as they will read the story inside. Nearly all women's magazines have some kind of sex story in it on this magazine it is 'Have sex, Look skinny' this is in caps in two different colours to make it stand out, as they maybe a popular story for people to read or that women could possibly be interested in and also in smaller writing underneath its says 'best. positions. ever' i think that there is full stops between the words because they think they know that they have the best information on this subject. 
 By including other celebrities in the magazine can attract a larger audience 'Justin Timberlake "i'm done with music"' this obviously isn't as important on the magazine as other things because it is put in small writing at the bottom, but again this can attracted justin Timberlake fans to read the magazine.
 '175 winter looks we love' is but in big bold caps writing, looks like a painted font, this is the main sub-title because it is the largest and straight alone the middle, this shows that the magazine is very in fashion like i said before and there target audience is going to be interested in that as women do like to read on the latest fashion, best bargains, greatest looks, what the Celebes are wearing, what looks best for the there body shape young women are all about fashion especially the type of audience that reads these magazines. By having real life stories in magazines are all ways interesting and gets lots of reads people women like to know what going on but are not always interested in the newspaper so if there is news and life stories in these there are interested. Class, i think the class that this magazine is aimed for is middle class young women form 16-35.