Oh ~ previously Oh Comely
The CSP Oh Comely has changed its name to Oh. The update on the magazine’s website states: ‘Oh is a reimagination of Oh Comely magazine and is still a place to meet new people, hear their stories and hopefully leave you looking at life a little differently. And every issue will still have beautiful photography and illustration at its heart’.
This is an in-depth CSP and needs to be studied with reference to all four elements of the Theoretical Framework (Language, Representation, Industries, Audience) and all relevant contexts.
Oh Comely is part of a development in lifestyle and environmental movements of the early twenty first century which rebrand consumerism as an ethical movement. Its representation of femininity reflects an aspect of the feminist movement which celebrates authenticity and empowerment
Print: Magazine (Independent). Oh Comely is an alternative magazine, aimed at a niche audience. The front pages and extracts from issue 35 must be studied are shown the pages following this information. You will also need to study the magazine in relation to Media Industries
and Media Audiences. This means looking beyond the specific edition to consider issues of ownership, production, funding, technologies and regulation (Media Industries) and targeting, marketing, sales and readership, audience interpretation, fulfilment, uses and gratifications ideas and theories (Media Audiences).
Useful Links
https://www.icebergpress.co.uk/our-story
https://twitter.com/icebergpressuk?lang=en
10 in 10
- Owned by Iceberg Press – an independent media organisation that just has a few members of staff
- LISA SYKES, EDITOR Lisa then spent further stints at Hearst Magazines UK, working as Deputy Editor of Coast Magazine,
- Sykes recalls. “We didn’t like the fact that print dying was becoming a self fulfilling prophecy”
- The world of magazines has never been more vibrant and innovative, but you wouldn’t know it from the average newsstand today. From Iceberg Press website