2. Todays society is reliant on social media and
making it prominent that it’s something my
magazine must include. New media is
incorporated almost everywhere in day to day
life, whether this is to socialize, find out gossip
or share memories. Personally I tend to use
Twitter and Snapchat a lot to find out about
the current music magazines and my favorite
artists. But, looking at my survey results
Snapchat, Twitter and Instagram was actually
the types of media which were used the most.
In my magazine I want to have links to twitter,
Snapchat and Instagram as I feel these
combinations work the best together and as
it’s minimal it will give me a clear focus
3. Twitter allows you to post images,
thoughts and memories to share with
those who follow you. The fact you
can only use 140 characters at a time
works as an affordance because it’s
short so its not time consuming
making it convenient and noticeable.
Twitter is one of the ways I want to
promote competitions due to the fact
It will enable those who enter to re
tweet a tweet that a celebrity tweets.
This will automatically promote my
magazine due to the large following
these celebrities have. Another reason
I chose twitter was because of the fact
I think it targets a range of ages which
will potentially expand my target
audience.
Snapchat is an app which is free to
download, enabling you to send
pictures to your friends or put them
on your story for your friends to see.
At the same time, it’s a place where
popular news, catwalks and
magazines. It’s got a very large
following and therefore would be
perfect for me to put up sneak peeks
of my magazine and a link to
potentially buy it. In addition, I could
get artists in my magazine to do a
story of them promoting my
magazine and due to their large fan
base is likely to lead to sales. By this I
mean they could say the first ten
people to tweet a picture of them
with their magazine gets a Dm.
Instagram is a slightly more
independent social networking
sight due to the fact its only really
for posting photos and videos
which your friends can then
comment on and like them. This
therefore becomes something I
could incorporate in my magazine
due to the fact I can use image sin
my magazine from readers which
have been sent in to use using a
specific hashtag as well as photos
from our own account. This is
likely to create a personal
relationship between my audience
and my magazine.
