How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Social Groups?
1. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
2. Vendetta Vendetta magazine represents young men. They are represented as stylish, contented, talented and calm.
3. Kerrang! Kerrang! Represents young men. They are represented as aggressive, angry, talented and in some ways tormented.
4. Metal Hammer Metal Hammer represents young men. They are represented as very aggressive, angry, destructive and loud.
5. The previous two slides show how two mainstream music magazines represent young men. This is the most common way young men are portrayed in this genre of magazine.
6. In comparison to other music magazines of the same genre my music magazine Vendetta, represents young men in a different way. They are represented as stylish, contented, talented and calm whereas young men in magazines such as Kerrang! and Metal Hammer are represented as aggressive, angry, loud, talented, destructive and in some ways tormented. Vendetta challenges the dominant ideas of existing publications by representing young men in a different and opposite way to major magazines. However the font style for the masthead reproduces the dominant ideas seen in other magazines.
