Wednesday 16 December 2009

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=876651

This website link is a forum for Q magazine were people have started off a topic about what they think is right and/or wrong with todays music magazines.
This forum starts off with "Does anyone else think that the once great (IMO) Q magazine has been slipping as of late?"
So it shows that the magazine has many music fans varying different tastes, because this person goes on to talk about why Q is advertising the wrong things like the 'Mighty Boosh' even though they have nothing to with the music industry. This person is just trying to get his/her opinion across of what he wants to read in the magazine, so my music magazine product would represent the people who love a variation of music, and not one mainstream genre. Todays "Indie kid" would be the perfect social group my media product would attract.

The reason why it would represent this certain group is because they would listen to different genres of music, like it, and feel obliged to buy a magazine for example Q or NME which my magazine is based on, because these type of music magazines promote similar artists and bands that this social group like. The forums help the music fans get their opinion across of who they want to see in the next issue of the magazine, and it also helps the music magazine because they know what the fans want to see, so they would strive to succeed in getting what the fans want, because then they would sell more copies of the magazine.

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