Kerrang Magazine

This magazine is called Kerrang. Kerrang is a alternative music magazine showcasing some of the best bands in that genre of music, we can tell this by the bands dotted about the page and how the pictures of the bands are posing and dressed. In this case they are all mainly all wearing black and white and posing in a 'moody' and 'pouty' way. They're also looking directly into the camera instead of looking into the distance, this may be to engage with the reader/audience and make them feel the bands are looking directly at them. 

The woman in the middle is shown as a punk rocker and as a important person in the alt music scene, pop-punk to be precise. (as the cover line tells us.) She is shown to be important because  she is the biggest image on the cover and is taking up the middle/right third with a mid close up. She is also shown as punk by the "charming V's" Commonly used by people in the punk scene.

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

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

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Teen girl magazines, such as teen Vouge and Bliss, are primally marketed for young adolescent girls between the ages of 11-15. These magazines normally consist of fashion advice, some form of female celeb/fashion icon (fig 1 & 2) or the latest teen heart throb (fig 3 & 4) as front cover's main picture,  next to the said image of the said celebrity will normally consist of something the celebrity can tell you or something the magazine can help with or give you in relation with the main image. In this case Fig 2 has Pink on the front cover offering to give advice on having amazing hair and in Fig 4, Shout offer the reader whatever Harry Styles has to reveal. The magazines also may also relate to seasonal times such a summer special which may offer a summer fashion advice.

However, there is a negative side to all this. It encourages young women to be exposed to many issues. For example many people claim that these types of magazine lead to anorexia and other eating disorders because of the thin models and diets the magazine expose to the reader, this may lead to them thinking that they must look like that beautiful or they must follow the diets and wear the clothes to be this false idea of the "ideal" young woman. Furthermore there is this the idea that the magazine KNOW what boys want from girls. This is ridiculous as for starters these girls are far to young to want that sort of advice from a faceless item and secondly how do they know what  boys want? It may also introduce the reader to being exposed to sex and destroy their innocence at an early age, fig 1 backs this up with the tittle in the bottom right hand corner. (476 ways to be irresistible) Cosmo Girl is aimed 12-15 year old girls and some may say that 12 is far too young to introduce a child to sex and becoming "irresistible" to boys.

On the other people may disagree with these statements and defend the magazines, saying that the readers will one day turn to a magazine for advice on sex and puberty. Furthermore the targeted reader may want advice on fashion for their specific age rather than reading an older magazine such as Cosmopolitan or Vouge and looking at fashion for an older audience also if they did read these magazines they may be exposed to more "hardcore" sex articles intended for a adult audience rather than a more "child friendly" idea of it sex and appearing attractive to the opposite sex.

In conclusion, there are major factors which do effect the audience socially such as the articles aimed to make introduce them into boys and how to impress them by dressing up doing make up like the woman portrayed on the covers of these magazines. Also there have been cases where girls have gone to extremes to become like the women in these magazines, such as eating disorders. However factors, such  as the fact it may be better for them to read these sort of magazines rather than a more mature version and that there are answers to the audience's questions on puberty and sex which they may feel too embarrassed to ask their parents, which justify these types of magazines and their articles.

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