Magazine Awareness

1. How does teen representation in magazines impact its teen reader?                                                           Teens representation in magazine is what they see is attractive which is cachy phrase, fashion and advice on dating. 
2. What are teens taking away from magazines?                                                                                            Teens are taking away advice that magazines give them in which it relates to their lives. The advice becomes a part of them in which it is femininity. 
3. How does this impact their ideas of social standards?                                                                                   This impact their ideas of social standards because teens start to rely on the magazine in which they no longer care about what they think but what the magazine say.  
4. How are teens using the internet in magazine readership? How are magazine companies making use of the internet?                                                                                                                                        Teens are using the internet in magazine readership to express their ideas and opinions about advertisement and products. Magazine companies uses the internet to see teens comments so that they can use their opinions and ideas to grab their attention. Basically they are cool hunters who are chatting with  regular teens on the internet. 
5. How does the regular format of a magazine affect teens?
    The regular format of a magazine affect teens because it persuades them to buy the products that the magazines offer them. It triggers the mind of the teens to open the magazine in order to find out what cool and trending so that they can buy it. 
6. What do you think are some examples of popularization of concepts through magazines or other media sources?                                                                                                                                                             I think some popularization of concepts through magazines or other media sources is when they show individuality that give their audience something new to think about. Individuality expresses who they are and what they like in which teens can follow and relate to magazine or media sources.   
7. How do role models or favored celebrities contribute to the influence of teens?                                                        Role models or favored celebrities contribute to the influence of teens by aspiring them or sending a message that makes them believe that teens who admire can be like them if they use or buy the product their advertising. Its very influential in many business companies in which it becomes a strategy to captures teens attention. 
8. Why might image manipulation be wrong or harmful to society?                                                             Image manipulation is wrong and harmful to society because many teens want to be just like their favorite role model or celebrity in which they begin to go through a phase of trying to image their own image. Some time celebrity image is not what they appear to be. 
9. How are celebrities responding to the retouched images of themselves? Why?                                                      Celebrities do not like the retouch because they are too prefect and what to be recognize for they are. 
10. What about magazines and the media do you think young people should be aware of?                             Young people should be aware of is Redbook, Seventeen, GQ, TV Guide, Star, and Time magazine as well as the CBS network because they all retouch images of their work in which they make teens feel bad about their appearances.