Comparing Cosmogirl and Cosmopolitan
A comparison between "Cosmogirl" and "Cosmopolitan". Two successful
magazines. One woman's' and one teenage.
Would you read the same magazines as your daughter? Would you expect
the contents in a magazine aimed at women to be diversely different
from a magazine aimed at teenagers?
I think that because teenagers are at very different stages of their
lives to adults and therefore have different concerns, issues and
perspectives on life, they should have separate influences such as
magazines. Magazines portray a fantasy lifestyle for many people and
so they are attracted to, and influenced by, them.
I am going to investigate the differences and similarities between two
magazines; one targeted at women and one at teenagers, to see whether
they differ immensely or hardly at all. I chose magazines produced by
the same company- "Cosmopolitan" and "Cosmogirl". Hopefully this will
help me to find both similarities and differences because they might
use the same features but just slightly changed. I expect differences
because the magazines are targeted at different markets.
First of all, I am going to look at the covers of my chosen magazines
because they are the most important part of the magazine. This is what
sells the magazine and attracts new readers. The first thing you look
at is the title. Most of the time it indicates the type of magazine it
is and whom it is targeted at. For "Cosmopolitan" the title is in a
bold, upright font. It stands out and the name suggests everybody of
all races, backgrounds and statuses coming together so the magazine
can involve everyone. The name is also so wel...
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lot of emphasis on fashion and expensive products cleverly
incorporated into it so you don't notice.
"Cosmogirl" is a typical teenage magazine. It focuses on reassurance,
advice and information. This is what teenagers need and I think that
most of the content is helpful, though some is a bit shallow. The
magazine is also used to market products but it plays on the need for
teenagers to fit in. The people who own the magazine are very careful
to put in things from the high street that mirror catwalk designs to
make teenagers feel more sophisticated and also to give them a
credible reputation.
Overall I think the magazines are suitable for the age rangers at
which they are targeted. There are similarities in layouts and
article/feature ideas but they are tailored to suit their own age
groups.
through some old things of my father's in the attic. I came across an old issue
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I was flipping through some channels on the television set one day and came across a woman's talk show, "The View." It caught my attention when one of the hostesses asked the audience of mostly women to raise their hand if they thought they were truly beautiful. Much to my surprise the audience did not respond with very many show of hands. The hostess then introduced a study done by Dove, the makers of the body soap. Dove polled over 6,000 women from all over the country and only two percent of the women polled said they feel beautiful. Women are surrounded by images screaming physical beauty is more important than their talents and accomplishments. Women are deriving their self worth from an ideal of how they think they should look and how they think everyone else wants them to look instead of focusing on their sense of who they are, what they know, and where they are going in life. In "Help or Hindrance?: Women's Magazines Offer Readers Little But Fear, Failure," Mary Kay Blakely states, "Instead of encouraging women to grow beyond childish myths and adapt to the changes of life, women's magazines have readers running in place, exhausted." She goes on to say, "This is a world we have 'made up' for women, and it is a perilous place to exist." One of the biggest culprits feeding women's insecurities are the popular women's magazine that line the book shelves of grocery stores, gas stations, and waiting rooms. They supply readers and the occasional innocent passerby with unrealistic images of what women should be instead of showing diverse age groups and women with natural beauty. Reading through a couple of magazines, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and Shape, I found nothing but hidden agendas and...
Us Weekly’s is a fashion and celebrity magazine. The cover had pictures and headlines about celebrities with their children along with celebrity rivalries and breakup exclusives. It was strange that the back cover was an electronic ad. It would be more visually appealing if it tied in better with the imagery on the cover. This issue was a mom’s special, so Us Weekly had a lot of celebrity baby news as well as pregnancy speculations. They had children’s fashion for both boys and girls, along with ideas for the summer, which played into the interest of mothers.
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Women’s fitness magazines are supposed to inform females how to get fit and be healthy; however, they continuously send messages to women that they have to fit certain standards of flawless skin, sex appeal, and dangerously low amounts of body fat. Women in their twenties and thirties are feeling the pressure from society to conform to body images seen in magazines, such as Heidi Klum who is 5’9.5’’and 119lb, Carmen Kass who is 5’10.5’’ and 114lb, and Elsa Benitez who is 6’ and 125lb (Magazine Dimensions 153, 162) (supermodelguide.com). (Are these the healthy bodies that we should be trying to obtain?) Fitness Magazines need to revamp themselves and give women healthy, realistic images and informative articles so they can help women become healthy.
Cosmopolitan is a international magazine for ladies was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later converted into a literary magazine and in the long run turned into a ladies' magazine in the late 1960s otherwise called Cosmo, its content starting 2011 included articles on issues, relationships, sex, wellbeing, professions, improvement toward oneself, celebrities, fashion and excellence for ladies. Published by Hearst Magazines, Cosmopolitan has 64 international editions, is printed in 35 dialects and is distributed in in excess of 110 countries]
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What we are going to do is we are going to share of some of your reflections that you’ve just done.
I have examined and analyzed the COVERGIRL™ NatureLuxe advertisement that uses common feminine stereotypes. In this advertisement, COVERGIRL™, which runs in Seventeen magazines, targets women through their choices of colors, fonts, and images used. Certain stereotypes are used; such as, those who are more feminine tend to prefer lighter, happier colors, such as pink. Also, the use of a celebrity, who many young women look to as an icon, assists in the advertisement of the COVERGIRL™ product. COVERGIRL™, more than likely, is able to successfully market their lip-gloss product in the United States by using common gender stereotypes to show femininity and how those, mainly women, should be presented in today’s society.
The society and I know that Cosmopolitan is a magazine that is aimed at women and has been a women’s magazine since the 1960’s. My main message, as me being a constant reader of the Cosmopolitan magazine, that I am trying to get across to you is the certain advertisements Cosmopolitan decides to include in their issues every year. These advertisements create a controversy within the media and I am inspired to make a change to this. I am not only speaking from one woman’s point of view but in fact several of my friends, who are also readers of the magazine, have mentioned similar things to me and the negativity they are concerned it may create towards the women
this magazine is aimed at women in their late 20’s as the woman on the
Shauna Judd Professor Pete Chidester English 222, Essay 2 28 April 2014 Feminism: The Ongoing Debate The roles of women in society have constantly changed over time. The rights to be granted to both men and women have been a controversial subject, often with the focus on feminism and the cry from women to be equal to men. Over time we have seen a change in the way that women’s voices have been heard, each declaring their rights and what they should be entitled to. Literature gave women a way to express their feelings and concerns on this topic, and we see this with the emergence of Mary Wollstonecraft during the Romantic Era, and later on with Virginia Woolf in the early Twentieth Century. Mary Wollstonecraft was straightforward in her writings with her viewpoints on what she believed women to be entitled to, whereas Virginia Woolf used a more narrative route using characters and fictional situations to bring about her concerns pertaining to freedom and modern feminism.
Comparing Two Newspaper Articles I'll be comparing the front page story of two newspapers. One is from a tabloid newspaper, as the other is from a broadsheet. I'll put across the. the diverse techniques that tabloids and broadsheets portray in their front page story. Newspaper media is designated to notify, and aim an.
Comparing two newspaper articles, one from a tabloid and one from a broadsheet will convey the different techniques that tabloids and broadsheets use to present stories. Media in general, aim to inform and interest the audience which consist of many different types. Diverse emotions and ideas are created by the media; foremost tabloids. Tabloids are papers like ‘The Sun’, ‘The Mirror’, ‘The Daily Mail’, ‘The Express’ and ‘The Star’. In contrast to these are broadsheets like ‘The Times’, ‘The Guardian’ and ‘The Daily Telegraph’. Broadsheets are often known as the ‘quality press’ being more informing and formal in the manner they convey information and news stories.