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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Teen magazine"”.
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What does it mean to be a Black girl? An exploration of Black girls’ meaning-making of self, community and society in Melt Magazine
Melt Magazine is a Chicago-based teen magazine designed by Black women and 30 teen girls. Named by one of the girls in the after-school program, Melt Magazine is a popular culture text co-developed by myself, Sheri K. Lewis, and other Black women and girls. The magazine was developed on the premise …
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Self-Improvement and Teen Magazines: A Matter of Fashion and Beauty: A Content Analysis of Sassy, Seventeen and YM--Teen Magazines for Adolescent Females
This research is a content analysis of three teen magazines: Sassy, Seventeen and YM. It replicates an earlier study by Evans, Rutberg, Sather and Turner, to determine if teen magazines targeting a young, female audience still promote self-improvement through fashion and physical beautification. …
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White Beauty: The Portrayal of Minorities in Teen Beauty Magazines
… of minorities in the two most popular teen beauty magazines: <em>Seventeen</em> and <em>YM</em>. Nine issues for 2003 constituted the sample frame yielding a total of 620 advertisements containing human models. After setting up a theoretical framework of the new racism and White beauty, …
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A Girl's Choice: Third-wave Feminist Messages in Seventeen
… employs a quantitative content analysis of the magazine Seventeen. Seventeen launched in 1944 and currently has a target audience of 17 to 22 year-old-girls, however, the median age of its readers is 16.5. Through a quantitative content analysis of the articles of every issue in the year 2009, …
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Adolescent Sexuality and Gender Discourses in Seventeen, Cosmo Girl, and Teen: A Frame Analysis of Online Teen Magazines
This research examines the role of online teen magazines in the production of gender ideologies by analyzing the representation of teenage sexuality from a critical perspective. Informed by theories of representation, citationality, and ideology, I used Pan & Kosickis frame analysis to analyze …