Remake, Remodel, 9780252079474
Paperback
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.

Remake, Remodel

Women's Magazines in the Digital Age

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  • Paperback

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    14 December 2013

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Summary

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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780252079474
ISBN-10:0252079477
Author:Brooke Erin Duffy
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Imprint:University of Illinois Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:14 December 2013
Weight:340g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm x 15mm
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Critics Review

“A timely, well-researched account of recent shifts in the women’s magazine industry and the impact of these changes on publishers and consumers. Duffy’s book offers an engaging analysis of the ways in which magazine producers have been compelled to engage with new media platforms in the quest to maintain profitability.”–Anna Gough-Yates, author of Understanding Women’s Magazines: Publishing, Markets and Readerships in Late-Twentieth Century Britain

About The Author

Brooke Erin Duffy

Brooke Erin Duffy is an assistant professor in the School of Media and Communication at Temple University and the coeditor of Key Readings in Media Today: Mass Communication in Contexts.

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