Thesis (MPhil (Journalism))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010. / Magazine publishers are under increasing pressure to extend their business strategies beyond the traditional printed products. A culture of instant gratification of media needs, pervasive social networking and the immediacy of content delivery, which are all provided by the World Wide Web, aggravate fears that readers will ultimately abandon the printed media in favour of the Internet as the primary content provider. These fears are rooted in the assumption that consumers choose the media they use based on preconceived ideas as to how these media will fulfil their needs. If the Internet succeeds in supplanting or displacing printed media, it could potentially destroy the traditional magazine model whereby publishers simultaneously generate revenue from the sale of media content to their audience and the sale of the audience’s attention to their advertisers. Therefore it is imperative that magazine publishers develop a relevant and efficient strategy to maintain their position as “intermediary” between advertisers and the media audience. To develop such a strategy, they need to understand what media uses consumers have for the Internet and what gratifications they expect to receive. Once this is understood, publishers could develop their online and offline strategies to service these uses and gratifications. This thesis contains qualitative research conducted in a phenomenological paradigm through the application of two descriptive surveys. The first survey focused on the experiences and attitudes of visitors to the website of WegSleep, an Afrikaans South African niche magazine for the caravanning and camping community, whilst the second compares similarities between the seven most visited magazine websites in South Africa during 2008. A correlation of the findings leads to the conclusion that although the Internet could potentially emulate all media, readers do not employ the Internet for exactly the same purposes as printed media. Whilst some displacement does take place, magazines are still better at serving readers’ affective and escapist needs. Conversely, the Internet is the preferred medium with regard to information gathering and cognitive media needs as well as personal integrative needs. Social integrative needs appear to be non medium specific. A complementary combination of the printed product and the online offering could therefore provide gratification of all media needs and promote brand loyalty instead of medium loyalty.

No Brasil, o campo profissional do design não costuma valorizar seu passado histórico e o que se observa é um desconhecimento da produção nacional antes da institucionalização do ensino dessa área do conhecimento. Assim, este trabalho procurou abordar as origens do design gráfico brasileiro por meio de um resgate histórico, analisando uma publicação periódica do início do século 20 como exemplo do que era feito no Brasil no campo do design gráfico antes mesmo dos profissionais utilizarem a denominação designer. A publicação periódica escolhida foi a revista Kósmos, uma das chamadas revistas ilustradas que circularam na cidade do Rio de Janeiro na primeira década do século 20, mais precisamente de 1904 a 1909. Procurou-se determinar e observar as soluções gráficas empregadas na revista de modo que se pudesse contribuir para a sistematização de conhecimento no meio acadêmico e profissional de design. / In Brazil, the design professional field denies its past and so, denies its history. Thus, the designs production before the configuration of design education in this country is unknown by designers and students. This research intended to broach the origins of Brazilian graphic design by doing a history recovery and presenting a periodic like an example of what had been done at graphic designs field in Brazil before the use of the name designer by these professionals. The periodic chosen was Kósmos magazine, the one of the magazines known as illustrated magazines and that were publicated in Rio de Janeiro at the first decade of the twentieth century. It was publicated between 1904 and 1909. We attempted to analyze the graphic solutions used by the magazine chosen in order to improve systematic knowledge in designs academic and professionals fields.

No Brasil, o campo profissional do design não costuma valorizar seu passado histórico e o que se observa é um desconhecimento da produção nacional antes da institucionalização do ensino dessa área do conhecimento. Assim, este trabalho procurou abordar as origens do design gráfico brasileiro por meio de um resgate histórico, analisando uma publicação periódica do início do século 20 como exemplo do que era feito no Brasil no campo do design gráfico antes mesmo dos profissionais utilizarem a denominação designer. A publicação periódica escolhida foi a revista Kósmos, uma das chamadas revistas ilustradas que circularam na cidade do Rio de Janeiro na primeira década do século 20, mais precisamente de 1904 a 1909. Procurou-se determinar e observar as soluções gráficas empregadas na revista de modo que se pudesse contribuir para a sistematização de conhecimento no meio acadêmico e profissional de design. / In Brazil, the design professional field denies its past and so, denies its history. Thus, the designs production before the configuration of design education in this country is unknown by designers and students. This research intended to broach the origins of Brazilian graphic design by doing a history recovery and presenting a periodic like an example of what had been done at graphic designs field in Brazil before the use of the name designer by these professionals. The periodic chosen was Kósmos magazine, the one of the magazines known as illustrated magazines and that were publicated in Rio de Janeiro at the first decade of the twentieth century. It was publicated between 1904 and 1909. We attempted to analyze the graphic solutions used by the magazine chosen in order to improve systematic knowledge in designs academic and professionals fields.

O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar um estudo, de cunho histórico e crítico, sobre o teatro brasileiro, a partir de pesquisa realizada nos periódicos da cidade de São Paulo do período de 1901 a 1922. Com base nos dados colhidos, como notícias e críticas de teatro, buscou-se analisar a atividade teatral desse início de século, e repensar suas contribuições, seu papel social, e aparente estagnação - tão divulgada por intelectuais à época. O estudo interpretativo encontra-se no volume I. No volume II há um índice dos periódicos consultados, contendo uma síntese dos temas relativos ao teatro, abordados por escritores e intelectuais desse período. / The objective of this work is to present a study, of historical and critical matrix, on the Brazilian theater, from inquiry carried out in the magazines of the city of Sao Paulo. On basis of the gathered data, like news and criticism of theater, it was carry out analyze of the theatrical activity of this beginning of century, and rethought its contributions, social paper, and apparent stagnation - so spread by intellectuals. The interpretative study is presented in the volume I. In the volume II there is a rate of the consulted magazines, containing a synthesis of the relative subjects to the theater, boarded by writers and intellectuals of this period.

Master thesis called "The roles of leading articles in present Czech magazines illustrated on monthly published CosmoGIRL! and Cosmopolitan." aims through stylistic analysis to describe the transformation of the journalistic genre of newspapers editorial into the current magazines editorial. Typical editorial, which was published in the Czech Republic before 1989, presents an administrative official text without using of any attractive language forms, contemporary magazine editorial uses more attractive language expressions ant it tries to gain the personal contact with reader. Thesis characterise typical features of newspaper editorial. The most important is analytical part, which analyses texts of Cosmopolitan and CosmoGIRL! editorials. On the basis of this stylistic analysis we can describe common and divers forms of newspaper and magazine editorials. We placed emphasis also on content and formal form, language form, and included ideology. Common and diverse forms were also characterized in case of two analysed periodicals. The outcome is a comprehensive picture of development of editorials and they role in contemporary Czech magazines.

Master of Science / Department of Journalism and Mass Communications / Robert W. Meeds / Recent research on magazine advertisements, for the most part, has examined race in terms of representation and gender in terms of stereotypical social roles and objectification. Very few content analyses have been done regarding the depictions of women in terms of specific body types portrayed in the advertising content of women's and teen magazines. In addition, very few, if any, studies have examined women's and teen's magazine advertisements for the presence of gender and racial stereotypes, overt sexuality, and depictions of a body ideal. This content analysis of six mainstream women's magazines explores the existence of all those variables and puts them in context with one another, examining the implications for what these advertisements say about our society. Specifically, this study focuses on the portrayals of women in women's and teen magazines, where previous studies have examined portrayals of women in general magazines or men's magazines, but no focus has been put on teen magazines or specifically women's magazines. Major findings include the obvious suggestions of specific body ideals for women and teens of different racial backgrounds, perpetuation of social role expectations and social stereotypes, and lack of sexual imagery prevalence in women's and teen magazines.

Theoretical part of this thesis is about women's magazines in the Czechoslovakia and in the Czech republic. The introductory chapters are about its characteristics, division and historical development. It describes current state in the Czech magazine's market, stratification of women's magazines, it also describes broadly media influence and apply these theoretical knowledge to women's magazines. The important chapter is chapter Media and Gender, which explains the term gender, compares men's and women's magazines and presents criticism of women's magazines from gender point of view. Methodological part is insight into the choice of method and choice of samples. This part contains also basic characteristic of reasearched magazines. Research part describes the representation of successful woman according to women's magazines, what is the difference in each magazine and it also shows the changes of view of successful woman in reserched period.

The 1930s and 1940s were characterised by considerable interest in research on literary magazines. Relevant studies were undertaken by A.M. Uys (1933, UCT), P.J.J. Dry (1939, UOFS) and W.G. Combrinck (1945, UW). This interest dwindled until J.H. Venter registered a doctorate at UNISA (1991), which he never completed. Today there is a vast gap in the field of research on Afrikaans literary magazines in general. Since no other research has yet been undertaken on the document design of literary magazines in particular, this study may be regarded as groundbreaking. Document design focuses on the utilisation of design elements to purposely create a document for optimal use by the reader. Renkema’s CCC model was chosen to serve as a generic, theoretically founded model for document analysis. In accordance with this model, texts were analysed and reviewed with regard to genre, content, structure, style and layout. Renkema’s model was adapted in order to fine-tune it for reviewing the document design of literary magazines in particular. In this study the choice of genre fell on literary magazines and little magazines of the 1960s (Sestiger, Wurm, Kol and Standpunte), the 1980s (Spado, Graffier, Stet and Standpunte) and the era of 2000 (Driepootpot, PENorent, seepdoos, Tydskrif vir Letterkunde and Spilpunt). The object of this study was to determine whether the parameters governing the document design of literary magazines changed over a period of forty years. The content of these magazines was analysed by classifying it in various subgenres and then comparing the number of writers who contributed to every subgenre in every magazine; the internal and external structure of the various magazines were defined and compared; the style of the various magazines was established and compared; and, lastly, the layout of the twelve magazines was explored and similarities, differences and progression were established. The results indicated that some of the parameters of document design have indeed changed over the past forty years, but that a large number of principles also remained unchanged. The content expanded significantly as a result of the addition of new subgenres. The internal structure remained consistent. The quality of the external structure and layout improved in such a way that it supports the internal structure much better. The style of the content remained unchanged for those magazines that belong to the same era, but changed through the decades to reflect the actualities and struggles of the day. Layout is the area in which the greatest measure of progression was recorded, mainly as a result of the expansion of knowledge in the field of document design, the evolution of technology in the form of the Internet, the layout process, the printing process, et cetera. These developments have, in the course of time, made it substantially easier to design documents for a specific purpose and target audience. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Unit for Academic Literacy / Unrestricted

This thesis examines how exclusive women's magazines readers approach the category of luxury, their relationship with products announced in these magazines and whether the feeling of luxury, aroused by such magazines, is affiliated with a certain social class. This thesis also focuses on question whether these readers regard physisal atractiveness as a sign of social status. The theoretical part of this thesis describes several concepts which are important in the context of media studies: social constructivism, the process of understanding media effects, the conception of uses and gratification and the role of mass media in the socialization process. This part further elaborates on exclusive women's magazines, conceptions of lifestyle, luxury, fashion and its importance for identity construction. The methodological part introduces the methodology of the analysis and the analysis itself. The sample used for this analysis was composed of ten respondents which were subjected to an in-depth interview. Each interview also included reception analysis. The following chapters describe the results of this analysis.

Body culture represents a typical example of sociological phenomenon which has been a subject of mass commercialization for nearly several decades. At certain stage of this process, new magazines of special interest were been created with focus on a specific concept of the physical culture. Their content coverage ranged from fitness, strength training, bodybuilding, health lifestyle, to physical exercise in general. The diploma thesis "The body culture phenomenon in Czech special interests magazines" aims to survey an origin and evolution of such magazines in the Czech Republic and tries to shed light on how physical culture represented by increasing popularity of fitness activities among general public had been reflected in this segment of media production. While analyzing three Czech magazines, Svět kulturistiky, FITNESS and MUSCLE&FITNESS, the thesis examines how the mass popularization and commercialization of physical culture have affected a content structure of the magazines. The research focuses on selection of topics, target audience, use of language and graphic design. Qualitative content analysis will be used to study how the physical culture phenomenon is represented in selected magazines. The thesis also gives a brief insight into the history of bodybuilding and fitness movement in the...