Teen Vogue and The voice -CSP Revision

Key words/Ideas:

  • Intersectionality (Bel Hooks) – Diversity within the online publications
  • Culture Industries – Risky business (David Hesmondhalgh)
  • Uses and gratifications- personal/social needs (Katz, bloomer)
  • Marginalisation
  • End of Audience (Clay Shirky)
  • Dispora
  • Feminist Frequency
  • Data Harvesting (Zuboff)

The Voice

  • First published 1982
  • No investors for a niche audience, context of 1980’s offered McCalla an opportunity. Barclays was being criticised for investments in south africa after segregation was institutionalised. McCalla secured £62,000, by one of MT’s initiatives so unemployed could start their own business’
  • Countertype to mainstreams negative portrayal of black people

Teen Vogue

Structure:

How media has changed – adaptations (formerly print)

Binary oppositions between portrayals

Noam Chomsky

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