Teen Vogue - Language
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- Created on: 13-03-22 15:35
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- Teen Vogue LANGUAGE
- Genre conventions
- Visually appealing & easy to navigate - meets integral criteria for a successful website
- Masthead performs expected function of returning user to homepage
- Instantly confronted with banner advert below menu bar - overtly prioritising profit? are supposed intentions superficial?
- Simpler layout than The Voice despite sharing similar banner displaying navigational tools
- Mobile version vertical scroll, mostly the same. But no menu bar w contents list
- Standard website features (footed info, socials, menu). Not dated
- Familiarity of lifestyle mag, but subverts genre & audience expectations wnew topics
- Visually appealing & easy to navigate - meets integral criteria for a successful website
- Website codes & conventions
- The omission of fixed main image signifies a constantly changing nature of modern culture & news
- Contents organised in simple grid pattern
- No suggested video content? However increased anchorage - video content is perhaps more complex and individual?
- 'Style' section comes first - reflecting product's fashion roots & way of initially appealing to teens in an accessible way
- Politics, Identity, Culture & Summit come after but take up more space - signifying priorities
- Narrative
- Selection of stories that largely see the world in a state of disequilibrum, highlighting the need to educate & ultimately destroy harmful narratives (e.g. Xenophobia)
- However, new equilibriums are found in the uplifting stories that highlight change & improved realities (e.g.
- Individuals in these stories are 'heroes' - and so are readers
- Individuals in these stories are 'heroes' - and so are readers
- However, new equilibriums are found in the uplifting stories that highlight change & improved realities (e.g.
- Increased subtopics under 'Identity' provide the narrative that identity is complex and made up of
- Gauntlett: identity is intricate & reflected through media
- 'Culture' section has a celebrity focus, consisting largely of celebrity 'news'
- Content largely american but has global appeal (celebrities)
- Selection of stories that largely see the world in a state of disequilibrum, highlighting the need to educate & ultimately destroy harmful narratives (e.g. Xenophobia)
- Genre conventions
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