Medium: MagazinesSee also periodicals related to media/media education

How young people see themselves has a lot to do with how themedia represent them. What magazines does your school librarymedia center subscribe to? Do these publications tell studentseverything they need to know? Do they deal withstereotypes, body image, product placement? Is the content ofthe magazine influenced by the advertisers? These are justsome issues to consider as you begin to study magazines andmedia literacy.

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Periodical Recommendations

Newest Book Recommendations (other books here)

The ModernMagazineVisual

JournalismIn TheDigitalAge

Remake,RemodelWomen’sMagazinesin theDigitalAge

TheMagazineHandbook(3rd)

MagazineProduction

TheTabloidCultureReader

The LastMagazine:

Magazines inTransition

Magazines: AComplete

Guide to theIndustry

FrontPage:Coversof the20th

Century

Older texts

The Language of Magazines The Girl on the MagazineCover: Understanding Women’s Magazines Smart AppleMedia(Intertext S.) The Origins of VisualStereotypesLinda McLoughlin in American Mass MediaRoutledge, an imprint ofTaylor & Francis Books LtISBN: 0415214246

Other recommendations:

The Magazines Handbook, Jenny McKayReading Women’s Magazines by Joke HermesMaking Sense of Men’s Magazines by Jackson, Stevensonand BrooksMedia, Gender and Identity by David Gauntlett