Ideas for my course work

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My ideas and plan
for my course work
Masthead
will be provided
magazine covers
that embrace and
show working
women and providing
information about Central
image
how powerful yet
unappreciated Cover
women are by the lines
media I will look into
mother hood,
working places and
find information
about women Feature
leaders and the article
things they have
achieved. Tag line /
feature article

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My target audience will be women from age 14-40, I will
provide key information about how women are shown in
the media, whilst demonstrating key events and things
that have been achieved by women. I will show how
society should view women as strong, independent and
hardworking people and not as objects. With this I will
link theorist such as Van Zoonen that has provided the
feminist theory explaining how gender is constructed by
the media, I will also consider the theory from Bell
Hooks that explains how women are viewed in the media
and how politics are linked. Most of the theories I will
apply will be from media representation.
My website will include a variety of news about women
leader ship, I will consider how women have played a
role in the most recent events such as the epidemic,
global warming and other breaking news, The website
will also include social platforms, a research page and
different links to other interesting articles. I will
present different magazines and how they have played
a part in empowering women whilst combining them
with my front cover pages that will allow to show the
similarities and differences in how I would want the
media to show and represent women.

The main ideas I will go through for my website is

highlighting how women should be shown to be
powerful just as equally as men and I will make my
audience question the real problems in our society
and how media displays women. I will provide
information for my audience about accomplishments
women have made during 2019-2020 that we less
talked about and why that was.
Theories in Magazines

Theoretical
Framework
Media
audience Shirky – End Of Audience Theory
Media
industries
Hesmondhalgh- Cultural Industries
Cultural industries follow a
capitalist pattern of increasing
concentration and integration so
production is owned and
controlled by few conglomerates.
Media Liesbet Van Zoonen – Feminist Theory
representations Women's bodies are represented as objects.
Ideas of femininity and masculinity are
constructed in our performances of these
roles. Gender is what we do rather than who
we are and changes meaning depending on
Media Barthes – Semiology Theory cultural and historical context.
language Denotations can signify Bell Hooks – Feminist Theory
connotations, associated meanings Intersectionality refers to the coming
for the same sign. Denotations and together of gender, race, class and
connotations are organised into Levi-Strauss – Structuralism sexuality to create a white
myths. Theory supremacist capitalist patriarchy,
Study of hidden rules that shape which dominates media
a structure to communicate representations
Traditional media are shaped by
ideology or myths. We
centralised producers.
understand the world and our
Audience behaviour is now
place within it based on binary
variable, they are prosumers
oppositions.
who can create and shape their
own content .
Jenkins – Fandom Theory
Media has enabled participatory culture
where audience are active. Participatory
audience create online communities using
new media forms to develop or influence
how media is consumed.
 Print Magazine front cover – featured articles – linked
Digital theories – main event article – advertisement.
Convergence
Online
Website – videos – interviews – articles – links websites –
advertisement for the particular audience –media
convergence – headlining stories –slogans – feature
articles.
Apps

Magazine apps – links for more articles similar to the

Social main one – YouTube – podcasts – Spotify –
media advertisement links – target audience.

Instagram – Facebook – twitter – posts stories and posts for the

main articles – links to other magazines with similar topics –
creating communities interest in a particular topic – prosumers –
active audience.