Messages in magazine covers

Written by Anderson on 19. October 2014 17:01 o'clock

    

Seventeen cover

The messages in Seventeen cover are designed to apeeal to young women in Amercia , but a more crytical analysis can reveal certain thinghs, if we are to understand how magazines shape behavior. So, let's play 7 errors game:


01 - Clothes, hair and make up were chosen for those girls by the magazine.
02 - Advices for - dating - guys are given to these young girls.
03 - Coupons are offered to consumers as indications on what they should buy.
04 - Make up itens are given to readers as incentive to - buy the magazine and - follow the make up 'tricks' they are teaching. 
05 - Reader's stories are used as a negative example, in opposition to the good example (the cover girl).
06 - The model, set as an exameple, is presented as someone who talks minly gossip.
07 - Also, advices are also given on how to make money fast (implying that work should not be a concern to those girls).

Of course, people are not empty-minded to follow everything by the book as a manual instantly. However, magazines are full of texts that people take for granted and accept as truth. If a more 'grown up' magazine informs people, why isn't possible that magazines such as this also convince young readers that that is how they should behave/be? But giving/showing patters are not exclusive from magazines. Ads are also masters of replicating and 'selling' ways of being/behaving, though sometimes they can be controversial. As examples, I've selected a few of them:
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Comments

About Advertising Intel, they put the figure of "boss" as the white man, with an erect posture and all employees around are black people, and are curved to the boss. I thought that advertisement shows a little bias, because the only figure of a boss in place is a white man and all his employees are Black and they assume a posture of high submission, as in the time of slavery.