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Remake, Remodel: Women's Magazines in the Digital Age


Remake, Remodel: Women's Magazines in the Digital Age

Paperback by Duffy, Brooke Erin

Remake, Remodel: Women's Magazines in the Digital Age

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ISBN:
9780252079474
Publication Date:
19 Nov 2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of Illinois Press
Pages:
208 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 27 - 29 May 2024
Remake, Remodel: Women's Magazines in the Digital Age

Description

What is a magazine? For decades, women's magazines were regularly published, print-bound guidebooks aimed at neatly defined segments of the female audience. Crisp pages, a well-composed visual aesthetic, an intimate tone, and a distinctive editorial voice were among the hallmarks of women's glossies up through the turn of this century. Yet amidst an era of convergent media technologies, participatory culture, and new demands from advertisers, questions about the identity of women's magazines have been cast up for reflection. Remake, Remodel: Women's Magazines in the Digital Age offers a unique glimpse inside the industry and reveals how executives and content creators are remaking their roles, their audiences, and their products at this critical historic juncture. Through in-depth interviews with women's magazine producers, an examination of hundreds of trade press reports, and in-person observations at industry summits, Brooke Erin Duffy chronicles a fascinating shift in print culture and technology from the magazine as object to the magazine as brand. She draws on these findings to contribute to timely debates about media producers' labor conditions, workplace hierarchies, and creative processes in light of transformed technologies and media economies.

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