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Medium article: Is Female Representation in Video Games Finally Changing? Read  this Medium feature on whether female representation in videogames is finally changing . Answer the following questions: 1) How have women traditionally been represented in videogames? women have been represented to be the  “damsels in distress” or and object as a male has to save them e.g. princess peach. 2) What percentage of the video game audience is female?   42% of the video game demographic is of a female audience. 3) What recent games have signalled a change in the industry and what qualities do the female protagonists offer?   T he recent games which have encountered a change are  Tomb Raider, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, The Last of Us, Dragon Age: Inquisition,  and  The Walking Dead  series 4) Do you agree with the idea that audiences reject media products if they feel they are misrepresented within them? i agree to this statement as females are objectified in the media e
1) What news website key conventions can you find on the Voice homepage? The site has many key conventions of a typical site and has similarities to Teen Vogue such as a banner, quick links, social media short-cuts, main images, side stories and more. 2) How does the page design differ from Teen Vogue? It doesn't include the moderate structure that the Teen Vogue site highlights. The site likewise includes a more extensivecolours for all the diverse segments of the site.  3) What are some of the items in the top menu bar and what does this tell you about the content, values, and ideologies of the Voice? This tells us that the with the sport being the first that is shown it can be that it may just have the most amount of viewers due to it being such a popular category. The next category is an opinion which is due to the voice being a very vocal site hence the name of the site. 4) Look at the news stories in the Voice. To what extent does the selection of n
1)  OSP: Clay Shirky - End of Audience blog tasks 2)  OSP: Teen Vogue - background and textual analysis 3)  OSP: Teen Vogue - audience and representation 4)  Newspapers: Assessment learner response 5)  OSP: Teen Vogue - industry and social media 6)  OSP: Hall and Gilroy - media theory 7)  OSP: The Voice - blog case study

Teen Vogue - Audience and Representation

Audience 1) Analyse the Conde Nast media pack for Teen Vogue. What is the Teen Vogue mission statement and what does this tell us about the target audience and audience pleasures? Their mission statement is to empower, enlighten and empower and this means that the audience pleasures include surveillance as it provides a political agenda and information that audiences would want to know. There could also be audience pleasure of personal relationships as it provides an inclusive environment and amplifying voices so audiences feel engaged. 2) What is the target audience for Teen Vogue? Use the media pack to pick out key aspects of the audience demographics. Also, consider the psychographic groups that would be attracted to Teen Vogue: make specific reference to the website design or certain articles to support your points regarding this. The target audience is still interested in celebrity content and beauty – which Teen Vogue addresses by featuring the ‘opinion leaders’ (two-step
1) Research Teen Vogue publisher Condé Nast. What other magazines do they publish and how much money did they make last year? The magazines that are owned by Conde Nast's are Wired, The New Yorker, Glamour, Vanity Fair and a few more. The company made £6.9 million in 2017 which is half as much as they made in 2016. 2) What are Teen Vogue’s main sources of income? Their main source of income is advertising, along with them hosting summits which cost around $400 per person. 3) How are traditionally print-based products like Teen Vogue diversifying to create new income streams? They would use celebrity endorsements to give their brand a certain exclusivity that this celebrity supports this brand, more recently companies have taken advantage of the new age of more active readers and publishing content that they would be interested in. 4) Why is sponsored content and ‘advertorial’ particularly important in media linked to the fashion industry? This is due to fashion shopping now