The magazine represents younger people aged 17-18 stereotypically by showing them wearing typical teenage clothes and often holding musical instruments. It also represents females positively by featuring them more than males. While mostly showing middle and upper class artists, reinforcing stereotypes about social class and music, the representation of the groups it does feature is overall positive as they appear happy and living their dreams.

1. Q2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
In terms of how my magazine represents particular social groups, I believe it is largely stereotypical
but in a positive way. For example, my magazine represents mainly the younger generation in ways
that could be seen as stereotypical. The artists in my magazine are all roughly 17-18 years old so
targets an audience of that same demographic. They also all wear typical teenage clothes yet with a
slightly classier style so as to not target a niche audience. It also represents the younger generation
as very musical as they are often shows holding instruments. For example, there is an image on my
contents page which shows a person holding a guitar. Also, for the image on double page spread the
person is wearing a pair of headphones around their neck which again relates to the music genre.
The magazine uses largely females and so represents them in a positive way as it could diminish
stereotypes of male artists by replacing them with females. Also, the magazine uses artists that
could be stereotypically middle or upper class reinforcing the stereotype that working class people
are not normally music artists which could be a negative stereotype. However, for the social classes
which the magazine does represent, the representation is overall positive as they all seem happy
and as though they are living their dreams. There is an example of this in my double page spread
article where the artist clearly states that she is “living the dream”. This makes the music genre and
music industry more appealing to the reader.