The purpose of this study was to see if there are any differences between high school girls and boy’s reception ability and memory after reading two Swedish lifestyle magazines. 9 boys and 9 girls from ages 17-18 were chosen to participate in the study. They were placed in a room one by one where they had to read one women’s magazine (Cosmopolitan) and one men’s magazine (Café). They did not know this was a memory and reception test until after they finished their reading. With help from former reception studies and the magazines, questions were selected so the interviews would give as much information as possible. The study gave some unexpected results, for example both genders seemed to remember numbers very well even if they didn’t remember the article itself. The myth that boys pay immediate attention to half naked girls more than anything else was not confirmed. They seemed to look at the half naked guys to compare themselves instead. When it comes to who remembered the most, girls outshined the boys. They paid more attention to the magazines and they got higher scores on the questions during the interviews. Overall the participants remembered far less than they thought which indicated that when they read these magazines they don’t think or reflect much. Interesting was the most common answer to why they seemed to remember an article.

Avsikten med denna fallstudie är att jämföra annonsering i några svenska magasins tryckta och digitala upplaga. Fokus ligger på hur annonseringen förändrats i övergången från tryckt till digital produkt. Skillnader i mängden annonser, dess layout samt avsändare och budskap har undersökts.  I vilken grad annonsering i de digitala magasinen använder sig av multimedieinnehåll ämnas också undersökas. Det vill säga ljud, video och hyperlänkning samt länkning till sociala nätverk. Uppsatsens uppgift är att ge en inblick i hur annonseringen i de digitala magasinen ter sig och skiljer sig från den i de analoga utgåvorna. Undersökningen ska också ge svar på om den webbaserade annonseringsmetoden affiliate annonsering kan vara ett sätt för magasinen att skapa nya och lönsamma modeller för annonsering i den digitala upplagan. Genom att använda en kombination av den kvalitativa och kvantitativa innehållsanalysen har tre olika svenska magasin i båda upplagor undersökts. Dessa är Runners World, Mobil och Sköna hem. Överlag har magasinen lika mycket annonsering i sina båda upplagor och dessa upptar generellt lika mycket utrymme och är placerade på samma sidor. Några skillnader i hur annonsernas layout är utformad i de digitala magasinen förekommer inte. Detta gäller också avsändare och budskap för annonserna. Det finns dock undantag från dessa likheter och beror då på att den digitala upplagan i undantagsfall är kraftigt omarbetad och innehåller en mindre mängd annonser, från helt andra annonsörer. Beträffande användandet av multimedia och interaktivitet har de digitala magasinen utvecklats olika mycket. Den digitala annonseringen spänner från helt statiska annonser hämtade från den tryckta upplagan till att använda en rik flora av olika multimedieelement. Hyperlänkning är relativt vanligt förekommande medan video är relativt ovanligt.  Några kopplingar till sociala nätverk förekommer inte i de digitala magasinen. I de magasin som tillämpar hyperlänkning och multimedia skulle affiliate annonsering vara ett sätt för förlagen att vända trenden med minskade annonsintäkter och skapa en attraktiv, prestationsbaserad betalningsmodell. / The purpose of this case study is to compare advertising in Swedish magazines printed and digital editions. Focus is on how the advertising has changed in the transition from printed to digital product.  The amount of advertisements, the layout, company or organization behind it and the overall advertising message is also a part of this study. To which degree the digital magazines utilize multimedia content such as video, sound, hyperlinks and connections with social networking sites are also meant to be investigated. The overall aim of this thesis is to give a clear understanding of how advertising in both digital and printed editions differs from each other. This study should also answer if the web-based marketing method affiliate marketing could be one way for the magazines to create a new and profitable advertising model for the digital edition. By using a combination of qualitative and quantitative content analysis three Swedish magazines in both editions has been compared to each other. These are Runners World, Mobil and Sköna hem. Overall the magazines contain the same amount of advertising in both printed and digital edition. They occupy the same space and are place at the same pages in both editions. Differences in layout has not ben observed. This also applies to company or organization behind the advertisement and the message mediated in them. There are off course exemptions from these similarities. This because of rare cases where the digital editions have been substantially revised, resulting in fewer pages than in the printed edition and a completely new set of advertisers. The use of multimedia and interactivity in the digital magazines has evolved in various degrees. Digital advertisement differs from the completely static as in printed magazines to the implementation of a rich variety of multimedia. Hyperlinks is common but video is still rare. Integration with social networks in the advertisements of digital magazines is non-existent. In magazines that utilize hyperlinks and other multi media could affiliate marketing be one solution for the publishers to turn the negative trend with declining ad revenues and create an attractive and performance based economic model.

The gay male community has traditionally been a marginalized population struggling for acceptance within the larger international frame. However since the development of gay magazine publications in the 1990s images of the gay male have been more widely spread throughout mainstream society. This study explores how race, age, body image, and sexuality are stereotyped to represent one standard image of the gay male as found in Western gay magazine publications. This is a quantitative media analysis, examining images, covers and advertisements in gay male magazines over a period of four years. By engaging in relevant theoretical discourses, empirical evidence, and scholarly research, this study critically analyzes how the gay identity is mediated by both the mainstream and gay publications. Results from the analysis points to wide spread discrimination within gay publications targeted at all gay minorities, which could have detrimental effects on the gay community.

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This study measures the attitudes men and women form toward women from a sample of feature articles and interviews in four men's lifestyle magazines (Maxim, Stuff Esquire and GQ) from the years 2002-2004. Attitudes were measured with a 15-item semantic differential analysis. Across all four magazines, attitudes toward the women were positive, active, and impotent. A MANCOVA tested the hypotheses that attitudes would vary by magazine title, gender, and sexism scores as measured by the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI). Magazine title was the only significant main effect, showing that women featured in Stuff magazine received the most negative ratings on all three semantic differential scales. Gender and ASI score did not significantly affect individual attitudes. / Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services

This thesis applies the radical feminist perspective set out by MacKinnon (1993) and Dworkin (1995), to analyze the construction of female sexuality within popular Canadian men’s pornographic magazines and non-pornographic magazines. A mixed methods approach was used to analyze the images and text within the feature articles of the selected magazines. Results revealed that women continue to be constructed as sexual objects within both categories of magazines, but the earlier link identified by MacKinnon and Dworkin between violence and sexuality was on longer apparent. Instead, women were a sexual puzzle that the magazines attempted to unpack. Rather than a strict dichotomy between pornographic and non-pornographic magazines, a continuum of grey emerged whereby the level of explicitness between the two magazines increased as the continuum progressed from left to right, thereby demonstrating the pornographication of mainstream media, as per McNair (2002).

In this thesis, I analyse the representation of grooming in Australian men’s lifestyle magazines to explore the emergence of new masculine subjectivities constructed around narcissism and the adoption of previously feminine-coded products and practices which may indicate important shifts in the cultural meanings of Australian masculinity. However, in order to talk about ‘new’ subjectivities and ‘shifts’ in masculine behaviours and cultural ideals, then it is imperative to demonstrate ‘old’ practices and ideologies, and so while the thesis is concerned with discourses of grooming and models of masculinity presented in the new genre of men’s lifestyle titles which appeared on the Australian market in the late 1990s, it frames this discussion with detailed analyses of previously unexplored Australian men’s general interest magazines from the 1930s. According to Frank Mort consumption, traditionally associated with the feminine has now become a central part of imagining men (1996: 17-18) while the representation and sale of masculinity is an increasingly important part of the ‘cultural economy’ (Mikosza, 2003). In this thesis I am concerned with the role of men’s lifestyle magazines and magazine representations of masculinity in the ‘cultural economy’ of mediated male grooming cultures.

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<p>The aim of this paper was to investigate what linguistic markers indicate that wedding magazines are written for women. The advertisements were divided into groups according to the target of the product advertized: targeted at women, at men and at both men and women. It was determined that the majority of the advertisements were aimed at women.</p><p>All the advertisements were checked for certain linguistic features: adverbs, evaluative and non- evaluative adjectives, gender marked words and titles. Since the material comprised very few advertisements targeted at men, the focus is on advertisements for women and advertisements targeted at both men and women.</p><p>The results of the study show that the language in the magazines confirms that they are aimed at women. Therefore, this paper can come to the conclusion that wedding magazines are for women, both in terms of language, which this paper investigated, pictures and the products advertised.</p>

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