Mojo representations
Celebrity Culture: Is there a version of reality that represents events and social groups to fit the purpose of the magazine? Are the representations dominated by how people look rather than what they do? MOJO wishes to attract a target audience that shares its reverence for 'classic rock' so constructs a version of reality that represents musicians as heroes, striving for excellence. For example in the main cover line the word "SAVED" is enlarged in a box as well as slanted which is different from all over words to highlights its importance that the band saved rock and therefore revealing them to be heroes. What are the stereotypical representations? Why have they been used?What are the counter-stereotypical representations? Why have they been used? MOJO generally use white, young men on their front cover to fit with the stereotype of rock being only for white young men which will allow the audience to instantly recognise the genre. However, MOJO may ...


So this needs to be completed...
ReplyDeleteAlso it would help if the images were the correct way around!
Thank you for improving this.
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