The media product represents several social groups. It portrays young women musicians positively by showing them as creative and successful in their careers rather than focusing on stereotypical attributes like piercings and makeup. The magazine also positively depicts middle-aged men as cover artists. While social class is not heavily featured, the inclusion of the formerly working-class band Oasis shows that people from less fortunate backgrounds can still find success.

1. Question 2- How does your media
product represent particular social
groups?
Age and gender groupsare represented as creative with individuality in my
musicmagazine, for example, Nina is shown playinga keyboard on the
frontcover, she’s clearly almost a youngwoman that has become successful
in a respectable industry. Her appearanceis flattering and she isn’t shown
with lots of piercingsor heavy make-up which is how a lot of youngpeople
are stereotyped to present themselves. On the contents page there are 3
moreyoungfemale prosperousartists, this shows the younger generation
in a positive light, compared to how most of the mediarepresentsyounger
peoplein a stereotypical negative manner. This magazineonly has photos
of femaleswhich may give the impression that females are moresuccessful
or musically talented, this however is not the case, I just didn’thave any
males to take photographs of. On the other hand, there are mainly middle
aged male artists listed for the coverlinesand content page, which is a
positive representation of middleaged males. Social Class isn’t represented
much in my magazine, however, Oasis are listed for oneof the coverlines;
Oasis are workingclass peoplethat weren’t extremely fortunatewhen
growingup, yet they are still successfulwhich is a positive representation.