How does your media product represent particular social groups?
My magazine has presented teenage males in a positive light. Evidence of this is that the three males shown are all smiling and not looking menacing or threatening, which challenges the dominant ideology that teenagers (boys specifically) are of these characteristics. Another thing that my main sell challenges is stereotypes, the band shown are of the metal genre but their clothing and general appearance suggest otherwise, thus proving that the black hair, black clothes stereotype isn't a just one.
There are some social groups that are absent from my work, for example: females, the disabled, ethnic minorities. Females are important in our society, but in music magazines, they are represented as sex objects, take Lacuna Coil's Christina Scabbia for instance. By leaving te female representations absent, i may have deterred female readers, however i could not get female models due to poor scheduling.
In my magazine i have set out to challenge sterotypes and dominant ideology, i did not want to produce a product which follows a trend representation wise.
My magazine has presented teenage males in a positive light. Evidence of this is that the three males shown are all smiling and not looking menacing or threatening, which challenges the dominant ideology that teenagers (boys specifically) are of these characteristics. Another thing that my main sell challenges is stereotypes, the band shown are of the metal genre but their clothing and general appearance suggest otherwise, thus proving that the black hair, black clothes stereotype isn't a just one.
There are some social groups that are absent from my work, for example: females, the disabled, ethnic minorities. Females are important in our society, but in music magazines, they are represented as sex objects, take Lacuna Coil's Christina Scabbia for instance. By leaving te female representations absent, i may have deterred female readers, however i could not get female models due to poor scheduling.
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