Dietary supplements are extensively used in the United States, especially by people age 50 and over. Surveys have shown that magazines and other news media are an important source of information about nutrition and dietary supplements for the American public. It is uncertain, however, whether magazines provide their readers with adequate information about the safety aspects of supplement use. T...

CONTEXT Understanding the relationship between cigarette advertising and youth smoking is essential to develop effective interventions. Magazine advertising accounts for nearly half of all cigarette advertising expenditures. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether cigarette brands popular among adolescent smokers are more likely than adult brands to advertise in magazines with high adolescent reader...

iii Chapter One: Introduction 1 Chapter Two: Background 5 Chapter Three: Literature Review 8 Sex and Sexuality 9 Men’s Magazines 11 Sex in Advertising 12 Stereotyping 15 Audience Interpretations 18 Chapter Four: Theoretical Framework 20 Visual Rhetoric 20 Foss’ Method 23 Chapter Five: Research Questions 25 Chapter Six: Methodology 26 The original study: “Fashion Faux Pas: Fashion Advertising, S...

Popular women’s magazines have gone online and are gaining increased readership because of their interactive content, videos, and discussion forums. This study examines women’s perceptions and behaviors toward online women’s magazines based on an online survey of 257 female magazine readers. We found that, compared with their print counterparts, online magazines were perceived to be easier to r...

Purpose – Repeated exposure to unrealistic notions of female beauty and body shapes, and limited gender stereotypes, may result in the internalization of those standards by pre-adolescent girls. The purpose of this content analysis is to examine the celebrity role models to whom young girls are exposed via magazines specifically targeted at the “tween” audience. Female celebrities are contraste...

AbstractPrint advertisements not only directly try to persuade buyers but also indirectly play a role in shaping their social attitude. An interesting area of research that as yet has received little or no attention is the study of the representations of females in magazines that their readers are mostly women. This study examined print advertisements in local family and health magazine from a ...

The purpose of the present research was to assess impact new digital media on conventional and visual communication has been significant. Digital transformed how information is created, distributed, consumed, profoundly affected traditional forms such as print newspapers, magazines, television. One main ways that through emergence online platforms social media. These have allowed individuals or...