Exercise: Look at a magazine cover. What can you tell about the type of magazine it is; what kinds of articles it contains; who is likely to read it? Why?
- This magazines cover tells me that its going to be covering serious topics and the kinds of articles are going to be about social justice in america. The people who are most likely to read it are the people who care and are trying to make a change to the current problems happening in America at that time.
This exercise is likely to elicit responses which focus on:
The visual elements, such as figure, costume, colour, pose, typography. Layout
- The black and white and the crossed off 1968 words tried to draw a comparison to how issues back then are showing up now in modern day america.
Linguistic elements – the title, lexicon, use of ‘teasers’
- The year crossed off shows how this is the same as the 60's and then the title of the article asks a question to get the readers mind thinking about what has or has not changed with the social justice in america.
Lifestyle – what kind of lifestyle is ‘on offer’? How is it offered?
- There is no lifestyle in this, it is trying to represent the issue happening in our country right now.
Representation – how are people and places constructed and presented through these technical elements?
-It got represented to show rough times and the hardship with social justice issues that they face in america, as it would be in the 60's.
Mode of address – how is a particular audience being addressed by these elements? How is a potential reader encouraged to see her/himself as the addressee?
- They could be seen as the person who is being addressed as for them to do something to make change and help in these times. Also, it could be talking to someone who has experienced this first hand and they can relate to the article.
Rhetoric – what is the potential reader being persuaded to buy/accept? How?
-The reader is potentially persuaded to buy into idea that there is a current issue going on in america and that it relates to what happened in the 60's. They did this by trying to draw a comparison to the civil rights issues happening in the 1960's.