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Celebrity Magazines, 1993.
Examines "Us"& "People" - their cultural significance, messages & issues and readership.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 12 sources, $ 39.95
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" Celebrity magazines seem to proliferate and thrive, though critics find them to be too personality-oriented, with minimal news value. The audience for these magazines is clearly large, and the success of magazines such as People and Us has influenced other magazines to include more personality profiles and celebrity interviews than they might otherwise print. An analysis of two issues of these magazines will show the types of article they contain and suggest clues to the purposes they serve, the audience they address, and the methods they use. It is expected that these magazines cater to a certain view of the world in which celebrities and their lives are not held up as role models as much as they are held up as ideals to be both emulated and knocked down at the same time. That is, readers are treated vicariously both to the benefits of celebrity while also.."
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Online Magazines vs. Hard Copy Magazines, 2007.
A comparison between the printed video game magazine, "Hyper", and the video game website, "Imagine Games Network".
1,618 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper analyzes the differences found between online journals or magazines and hard copy examples. The paper explores the similarities and differences between two magazine publications - "Hyper" (an Australian video gaming print magazine) and the "Imagine Games Network" (IGN.COM, an American video gaming online magazine). The paper concludes that both styles of magazine have their strengths and weaknesses - both are popular and both are profitable.
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"As of the September issue 2003, Hyper has been in monthly print for exactly a decade in Australia. This makes it the longest running video gaming magazine in the country - obviously due to its success. Hyper's publisher Next Media publishing sells approximately two million magazines a month and is ranked in the top ten of Australia's media publishers (Fish: 2003, Hyper Issue 112 pg6). Looking through the various articles, pictures and even advertisements in the magazine one can gather that it is targeted at a predominantly male readership. Subtle sexual innuendos aimed at teenage boys are scattered throughout each issue. The wording of each article is written in a casual fashion and never talks down to the reader. The magazine never takes itself too seriously either, perhaps in a knowing attempt to allow their readership to escape their hectic lives for a while (much like videogames do). An example of this can be found in Issue 97, which shows a preview for a game by the name of 'Conker's Bad Fur Day'. A picture showcasing the visuals of the game depicts a squirrel character standing over a female dinosaur character with a giant bone in his hand. The caption states: 'oooh, looks like she's about to get boned dude!' (Shea: 2003, Hyper Issue 97 pg68). Although it is clear the screenshot itself is not intended sexually, the journalists of the magazine know their audience and are fully willing to use some sexual humour to spark up some interest."
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Magazines: What They Mean to Us, 2002.
This paper discusses the importance of magazines in our society, and how magazines influence children's reading.
1,190 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 0 sources, APA, $ 40.95
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This essay is critical review of the magazine?s effect on the literacy among children and youth. Comparisons are made between magazines, newspapers, mass media, and electronic e-zine.
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"In my opinion, magazines are the key to our nation?s youth becoming avid readers. When they are young, children are naturally more visual learners because this is the only way their minds are able to process information, as their vocabulary is not developed to an extent where merely words can convey an idea. This is the advantage magazines have over books of print. Magazines are littered with colorful pictures to accompany articles so as to provide a more vivid expression of the theme at hand."
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The Role of Death and the Celebrity, 2002.
A look at how dying affects the public perception of a celebrity figure.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper examines and identifies qualities of death that are exclusive to celebrity figures. Celebrities are perceived as being somehow greater than common human beings, indicating that they will not age and die in the same respect. Yet when a celebrity does die a violent death, their status is elevated to a position of a "martyr", and they are once again considered above common human beings.
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Women?s Magazines, 2004.
A look at the dieting and advertising trends in women's magazines from 1980 to the present.
1,573 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper describes a study to analyze the frequency of diet ads in two popular women?s magazines, "Good Housekeeping" and "Seventeen". It looks at how an archival study was done to record the number of all diet ads and/or articles in the two selected magazines over a time span from 1980 to 2003. It concludes that the results indicated that there was not any significant difference between the number of diet ads between the two selected magazines and also did not support a significant relationship between the number of diet ads and the decades.
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"The projection of the desirable woman, particularly in North America, in mass media is an unrealistic, and for many women, unattainable body type (Harrison, 2003; Koff, & Benavage, 1998). Since the post-war era, there has been a significant increase in eating disorders (Harrison, 2003; Koff, & Benavage, 1998; Polivy & Herman 2004). Large or overweight women are generally stigmatized in respect to how sexually attractive they are, and in courtship (Wiederman, 2000)."
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The Representation of Women in Magazines, 2002.
Discusses the history of women being featured in magazines and why the image of the thin woman negatively affects women, especially teenage girls, in present times.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 35.95
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From the earliest moment in time, women have been represented in the world of magazines. During the pre-revolutionary era women were represented in the press. The world of magazines is known for the social changes that are made. When you consider the role of the media and its representation concerning women, today we have a serious problem with not only fashion models, but also women in every walk of life. Why? The representation of thin women leads to serious eating disorders ranging from anorexia or bulimia. Many teenagers starve themselves to have the "thin" bodies they want. Certainly, the representation of women in magazines affects teenagers.
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Celebrity Marketing, 2002.
Discusses how a celebrity could be marketed efficiently and effectively.
1,344 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper looks at several factors which would determine the successful marketing of a celebrity. It looks at issues such as target markets, the celebrity's selling points and timing. The paper also looks at the advantages and disadvantages of the media as a tool to promote a celebrity.
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"Timing is everything! This phrase refers to the concept that the key to success in promotion is to make sure that the time is exactly right for a particular event. This requires a keen sense of awareness of trends in the American scene. American history is filled with examples of events that could have been successful had the timing been right. The most blatant example of ill-conceived timing is the eight-track recorder. It was a good product but the tastes of the public had not been analyzed, and the cassette recorder took over the market."
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Celebrity Privacy and the Paparazzi, 2002.
A discussion of what makes a celebrity and what rights they have to privacy from being photographed by journalistic photographers.
1,140 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper examines the relationship between the parapazzi (journalistic photographers) and celebrities, which has been bought into the spotlight by the death of Princess Diana in a car crash trying to escape from them. It evaluates the lack of clear cut boundaries when it comes to the paparazzi and their rights and proposes a new law to be enacted that will restrict the photographing of the famous to public events or events that the paparazzi is invited to by the star in question. Anything outside of those boundaries should be considered a crime. It reviews several famous court cases on the topic of invasion of privacy of celebrities and argues that celebrities should not have to give up their right to basic privacy simply by becoming famous.
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"For many years the press and the famous were friends. The press attended openings of films, causes that were important to the stars, and other events in which the public had an interest, and the celebrity benefited from their presence. It began to change several decades ago when the press began to invade the private lives of the celebrities that they covered. Over the years there have been several famous court cases in which the celebrity has asked for relief from such stalking and harassment from the press."
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Magazines and the Worlds They Create, 2004.
A comparative analysis of what the magazines ?Shape? and ?Men?s Health? create for their readership.
958 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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This paper examines how two parallel magazines, ?Shape? and ?Men?s Health,? with similar market bases, target women and men with similar interests and from similar lifestyles and age groups. It compares the different ways the magazines conceptualize their readership and how the magazine?s advertising attempts to influence the targeted reading populations, despite the mutual parallel between the target audiences in their interest in living a fit lifestyle.
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"Both magazines discuss fitness, nutrition, going out, and what to wear when working out and going out on a monthly basis, in both male and female incarnations. One of the most pernicious stereotypes that cling to women?s magazines, as noted by Mary Kay Blakely, in her essay, ?Help or Hindrance? Women's Magazines Offer Readers Little Fear, Failure" is that such women?s-targeted magazines as ?Shape? are alleged to hinder women?s pursuit of independence. Yet ?Shape? magazine, and other female fitness magazines of its ilk, all often show women pumping iron, riding mountain bikes in the great outdoors as well as in great gyms, and show examples of women pushing themselves beyond their available limits on the playing courts as well as in terms of weight loss."
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Magazines and Body Image, 2004.
This paper discusses women's magazines and the influence they have on body image in women.
1,857 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 59.95
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This paper discusses what body image is, what exactly is being viewed by women in women's magazines and then why these images have the effect that they do. It then discusses women's reactions, how they make them feel and how viewing women's magazines can affect their self-image. It then goes into detail of what could be done to fix this.
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"Flip absent-mindedly through any young women?s magazine and in between the titles and pages of ?4 Hot New Makeup Looks? and ?Little Signs He?s The One?, you?ll see dozens and dozens of women who all look the same. Women advertising one thing or another, all with the exact same incredible makeup, all with skin highlighted with professional lighting and computer touch-ups, all pouting in that sexy manner and leaning in the same seductive poses? all perfectly sweet, sexy, and skinny. All with perfect bodies."
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Teen Magazines and their Influences, 2001.
Looks at the influence of teen magazines on teenage girls and how it affects their views of themselves.
1,655 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper describes how teen magazines influence the way teenage girls view themselves and affect their self-esteem. The author examines the bombardment of perfect female images on girls, and how they struggle to achieve such standards of beauty. The paper discussed how young women begin to define themselves solely on how they look and how teen magazines teach girls that it is acceptable to be seen as objects.
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"In the past few decades, teenage girls have been tremendously preoccupied with their looks. They are obsessed with their makeup, their hair, their clothes, and their weight. What is responsible for this obsession? If you flip through any one of the numerous teen magazines on the market, you will find on just about every page one of the following: a makeup ad, pictures of super-skinny, flawless models, tips on how to improve your looks or change your body, or pictures of girls being portrayed as sex objects."
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Celebrity Culture, 2004.
An analysis of the effect celebrity culture seems to have on the news industry.
1,455 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper contends that celebrity culture has become so mass-produced in the American media that it has overpowered news-based coverage. The paper explains that this market saturation is capable because of how we communicate and it is changing what we communicate about on all levels. The paper examines the possible causes of celebrity fascination and explores its effect on the news media.
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"Celebrity faces are an ever-present reality today. American television programs, supermarket check-out lines, newsstands, cubicle desks, and middle school book bags are full of them: the bright, shiny faces that show the American people how to dress, eat, not eat, dine, dance, walk; the latest gossip about who is kissing who, who has broken up, and who is the Next Hot Thing. Holly wood has become America's living, breathing soap-opera, and instead of being tucked away in the afternoon hours between the midday and evening news, they have become the news. Journalists bow to them, filling their court rooms with microphones, cameras, and live updates whenever they do something wrong, and camp outside whatever happy event is celebrated when they do something right."
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Magazines, 2006.
An analysis of the success and popularity of magazines.
1,281 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper examines how magazines are visually interesting, have high pass-along readership, focus on specific interests of their publics, and offer highly targeted and efficient advertising. It also argues that magazines will continue to stay popular as long as they reflect the evolving interests of the public.
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"The articles in magazines have more meat to them than a typical article in a newspaper, or segment on a television show (Vivian, 2006). With fewer deadlines writers have the opportunity to invest a greater amount of time on each article they pursue. A lead article can span anywhere from three to twelve pages or more of content (Vivian, 2006). This engagement promotes further consideration of advertisements. Think of the uncle with a subscription to National Geographic. The articles are themselves a piece of history, and something that many have felt the need to collect and save. Until recently when National Geographic went digital, libraries across the United States saved years and years of back issues. "
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Glossy Women Magazines, 2006.
This paper analyzes a women's magazine; "Glamour."
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 53.95
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The paper discusses how "Glamour" initially gives the same impression as all glossy women magazines with its focus on women, clothing and beauty. The magazine is filled with slim models and the numerous advertisements are preoccupied with make up, skin care, hair and beauty, moisturizer essentials and news relating to celebrities. In fact, the vast proportion of the magazine is devoted to beauty tips or clothing information, and almost every second page is an ad that is concerned with superficial bodily aspects such as the condition of the skin.
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Women's Magazines, 2002.
This paper discusses the relationship of women?s magazines to today?s women.
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 11 sources, $ 106.95
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This paper analyzes whether the women's magazines McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, Woman's Day, and Better Homes and Gardens are a friend to the liberated woman of today.
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