Shabd's Media Blog 1 - (Mr Bush)

Teen Vogue: background reading Read this  Guardian feature from 2017 on Teen Vogue  and answer the following questions. 1) What was the article that announced Teen Vogue as a more serious, political website – with 1.3m hits and counting? 25-year-old Lauren Duca, a Teen Vogue contributing editor and award-winning writer for the likes of Vice and the New Yorker published an excellent piece regarding Donald Trump gaslighting America.  She also readers excellent advice, stating  “Refuse to accept information simply because it is fed to you, and don’t be afraid to ask questions.” 2) When was the original Teen Vogue magazine launched and what was its original content? The original Teen Vogue was launched in 2004 as a little sister to US Vogue. It focused on traditional fashion content and celebrity gossip.  3) How did editor Elaine Welteroth change Teen Vogue’s approach in 2015? In 2015, Elaine (then beauty editor) and the team decided to do somet...

1) What news website key conventions can you find on the Voice homepage? Top bar showing all the sections; social media links at the top, search bar, title of the newspaper, sliding banner of top stories; adverts at the top of the screen; logo or name of the organisation; homepage; videos of stories. 2) How does the page design differ from Teen Vogue? The page design is much more clean. There aren't as many stories crammed in one location and there are much fewer topics to click on in the bar menu. No social media links are used at the top of the page. Fewer text is used to explain stories, all the cover models in The Voice are black but Teen Vogue has a mix of different ethnicity's. 3) What are some of the items in the top menu bar and what does this tell you about the content, values and ideologies of the Voice? Sports, Opinion, Entertainment, Faith, Careers, Windrush and Motoring. This shows that the brand want to appeal as many readers as possible by providing them with a...

Read the Factsheet and complete the following questions/tasks: 1) How does Gilroy suggest racial identities are constructed? Race can be seen as shared biological identities inherited from previous generations. Gilroy would argue that race makes the identity of oppressors and the oppressed seem fixed and uniform; that racial categories are caused by human interactions and as such those categories are subject to change. Around the world structures of political and social life have been constructed under race thinking. As Gilroy sees race as a result of racism, the fact that these aspects of society are based upon race thinking is problematic, and as such there is scope to evaluate the equality of representations and identities created in the media. 2) What does Gilroy suggest regarding the causes and history of racism? Here Gilroy is saying that racism isn’t caused by race, racism causes race. Racism is not caused by the clash of two or more races – racism is not a natural...

1) What was the article that announced Teen Vogue as a more serious, political website – with 1.3m hits and counting? 25-year-old Lauren Duca, a Teen Vogue contributing editor and award-winning writer for the likes of Vice and the New Yorker published an excellent piece regarding Donald Trump gas lighting America. She also readers excellent advice, stating  “Refuse to accept information simply because it is fed to you, and don’t be afraid to ask questions.” 2) When was the original Teen Vogue magazine launched and what was its original content? The original Teen Vogue was launched in 2004 as a little sister to US Vogue. It focused on traditional fashion content and celebrity gossip. 3) How did editor Elaine Welteroth change Teen Vogue’s approach in 2015? In 2015, Elaine (then beauty editor) and the team decided to do something extremely unconventional and unheard of. They placed three unknown black women on the cover of the magazine, breaking all traditional ...