The capitalist Christ of the Word of Life Church's unlimited women's magazine: an intertextual and interdiscursive analysis

Health is a most common topic discussed in women magazine ranking from fashion to beauty, sexuality to art and culture. Biological health, mental health, fertility and sexual health are the most common topics which are given wide coverage. Whether this news, having quantitatively audience, is qualitatively health news is the primarily problem. The most of the news deals with particular subject such as medical selling, aesthetic advertisement and prototypes imposed on popular life. A large number of news reaching the audience read for health purposes cannot go beyond triggering the consumption culture. That is the starting point of this study. The study limited to 52 issues of Cosmopolitan Turkey published between June 2014- September 2018 analyses Dr. Cosmo, which falls into the health news category. In this study, content analysis is used to examine to what extent the news qualitatively and quantitatively contributes to medicine journalism. At the end of the study, it is found that the most of the health news is published on the purposes of commercial concerns, consolidates aesthetic perception and generally stuck between certain topics.

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Fair Lady: effective coverage of politics in a women’s magazine

Global Media Journal African Edition ◽

10.5789/4-2-4 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Chanel Boshoff ◽

Lynnette Fourie ◽

Thalyta Swanepoel

Keyword(s):

Effective Coverage ◽

Women's Magazine

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Synchronicity of social change and the construct of gender roles: Traditionalism and modernity as contents of mainstream model of female gender roles in women's magazines during the last quarter of 20

Filozofija i drustvo ◽

10.2298/fid0209267j ◽

2002 ◽

pp. 267-278

Author(s):

Isidora Jaric

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Gender Roles ◽

Theoretical Approach ◽

Female Gender ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Women's Magazines ◽

Self Management ◽

Research Model ◽

Women's Magazine

The main intention of the research is to retrospectively decode changes in mainstream construct of female gender roles within the period of ''developed self-management socialism'' (1970s), period of structural crisis of socialism (1980s) and post-socialist period of Serbian/Yugoslav society. The mainstream construct of female gender roles will be reconstruct from Serbian women's magazine 'Bazar''. Through the basic presumptions of theoretical framework the research will try to conceptualize theoretical approach which will correspond with co called 'new communicative research model' which will be capable to incorporate contemporary changes within the process of communication among the emitter and recipients in order to better understand the content of the message.

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