Friendly advice? Beauty messages in web sites of teen magazines

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The use of youth-targeted language, combined with offers of expert advice in the management of beauty problems suggested that web sites of teen magazines wish to present themselves as friends rather than marketers. Their sites play an important role in a private, personalized and interactive setting in reinforcing the messages concerning the centrality of female beauty in Western societies.

Marketing procedures, Targets & Markets, Evaluation, Company Web site/Web page, Web sites (World Wide Web), Web sites, Target marketing, Web site/Web page development, Youth market

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How ethnic are U.S. ethnic media: the case of Latina magazines

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Periodicals aimed at a female Hispanic American audience perform pluralistic as well as assimilative functions. Since many Latin American as well as Hispanic women read these magazines, they attempt to create a pan-Hispanic identity.

Social aspects, Periodicals, Literature, Hispanic Americans

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The politics of studying media violence: reflections 30 years after the violence commission

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This article discusses the political aspects of the relationship between media, violence, and social action. Topics include government regulatory policy, the history of the Violence Commission, and social learning.

Analysis, Causes of, History, Political aspects, Violence, Social action, Social learning, Violence in mass media, Media violence

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