Magazines and Media

Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, 2015

Magazine studies have proven to be a field little explored in academia. The object magazine is very diversified, which hinders the definition of methodologies that can be replicated by different researchers, a situation which is even more exacerbated in the case of transnational studies. In this universe of differentiation, the newsmagazine has been the publication to merit more attention from researchers in the field of Journalism Studies. This paper aims to deepen the knowledge on this type of magazine which stands at a crossroads with the newspaper, living of generalist contents aimed at an unspecified audience. The study follows six newsmagazines along the 12 months of 2009 - a year which began under the sign of a new era, with the inauguration of Barak Obama, the first African-American President, but clouded by the war in the Gaza Strip and by an economic crisis which was already crossing the Atlantic and becoming global. Four of the publications analysed correspond to newsmagazines of international circulation, two of which American, Time and Newsweek, and two French, L'Express and Le Nouvel Observateur. The remaining two are Portuguese newsmagazines of national distribution-Visão and Sábado. These three pairs of newsmagazines compete in the same markets and correspond to the oldest publications in print in their respective countries of origin. The research is centred on the cover, understood as an autonomous dispositif, of the six publications, in a total corpus of 307 items, which was submitted to a content analysis grid of 29 categories. The findings support the conclusion that there is a gap between the international publications, which construct more covers closer to the universe of newspapers, favouring topics of international politics and hard news, and national newsmagazines, which take on more features of magazines, addressing health and behaviour topics, as well as soft news.

Handbook of Magazine Studies, 2020

This chapter summarizes several decades of research on the role of the magazine form in the context of the classic theories that were instrumental to the development of mass communication as a stand-alone research field—agenda setting, gatekeeping, and uses and gratifications. Some of the questions we ask and answer in this chapter include the following: What are the unique or “exceptional” functions of magazines in building or shaping public agendas? How and why do magazines uniquely contribute to the diffusion of political and social ideologies? Are magazines’ influences simply a manifestation of one or more of the media functions posited by Lasswell (1948), or of the social (dys)functions proposed by Lazarsfeld and Merton (1948)—or might they represent distinct, supplemental functions or dysfunctions of their own? And, finally, how can magazines published outside the global West contribute to our understanding of classic mass communication theories?

All the submitted papers were individually reviewed in an anonymous double blind peer review process on basis of which the editors decided about their publication in the conference proceedings.

Diid. Disegno industriale industrial design, 2022

Within the context of the publishing and media system, magazines can be considered as cultural artifacts in constant transformation, not only for technological changes but also for their strict relationship with the sociocultural context. They reflect and contribute to the construction of reality by disseminating various types of content through different analog or digital media. In this article, we assume that magazines can be semiotically interpreted as texts and their design (both in terms of content and expression), derives from a series of translation practices. The translation paradigm, in all its interpretations, specificities, brings to our attention the centrality of the contents and the ways in which they are framed, modelled, and transferred. These theoretical premises led us to question what magazine-ness consists of today, what are the most relevant lines of research and design for the present and the future. We have identified four different directions open to further investigation: alternative-slow journalism, transmedia journalism, data journalism, and automated journalism. These categories do not purport to be exhaustive; they constitute a first interpretative model that deserves further development and study both at a theoretical and design level.

Journal of Magazine Media, 2017

Though you will find it in volume 18, number 1, this letter marks the beginning of the first volume of The Journal of Magazine Media. A little bit more than a year ago, the membership of the Magazine Media Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, which created and supports this journal, voted to change the journal's name from The Journal of Magazine and New Media Research. The name change reflects changes in the magazine industry, since the Magazine Publishers Association changed its name to MPA: The Association of Magazine Media, in 2010. But the name change also reflects an existential question about magazines: What is a magazine? On the Shoulders of Giants

English Studies in Canada, 2015

The newness of periodical studies? In her recent book on the ongoing relationship between modernism and media, Jessica Pressman makes the convincing claim that modernism-as a "strategy of innovation that employs the media of its time to reform and refashion older literary practices in ways that produce new art"-is "centrally about media" (3-4 emphasis added). Pressman is not the first to link modernist aesthetic innovation to the rapid transformation of media technologies at the turn of the twentieth century; she identifies her indebtedness to media scholars including Friedrich Kittler, Lev Manovich, and Marshall McLuhan, all of whom engage with the new discourse networks afforded by the rise of phonographs, radio, and cinema. She also echoes the work of scholars like Ann Ardis, who argued in 2013 that the turn of the twentieth century is a period of "media in transition, " characterized by a complex "media ecology" that demands "scrupulous attention to both the materiality of print and its intermedial relationships with other communication technologies" ("Towards" 1). While Pressman leaves it out, Ardis and many other scholars make a point of including the periodical press in this media ecology and as part of "the still broader field of 'print

OBRAZ, 2020

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