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- Media Technologies: Class 6, Magazines
- 1 European magazines
- 1.1 storehouse of reprinted content from other sources
- 1.2 Originated in Europe in 1700s
- 1.3 Elegant and amusing writings
- Literature
- Politics
- Music
- Theater
- Personalities
- 2 American magazines
- 2.1 William Bradford’s American Magazine
- 2.2 Ben Franklin’s General Magazine and Historical Chronicle
- 2.3 Short-lived due to American Revolution
- Too few readers
- High costs of publishing
- Expensive distribution
- 3 Partisan magazines
- 3.1 Thomas Paine’s Pennsylvania Magazine
- 4 Miscellanies
- 4.1 Variety of content
- 4.2 Appeal to small, far-flung audiences
- 5 Copyright
- 5.1 Passed in 1790
- 5.2 gave authors a copyright
- 5.3 Helped encourage new content
- 6 Popular 19th Century Magazines
- 6.1 Enhanced Magazine Covers
- artistic drawings
- color images
- article teaser
- 6.2 Advertising
- more revenue
- lower costs
- more pages
- 6.3 Cost
- 7 20th Century Urbanization
- 7.1 industrialization
- factories
- foundries
- assembly lines
- 7.2 growing urban society
- 7.3 reading grew as a mass medium
- 8 Muckraking
- 8.1 Progressive Era
- 8.2 Titles
- 8.3 Important Works
- Ida Tarbell
- Great American Fraud
- Senators
- Daughters of the Poor
- The Jungle
- 8.4 Reforms
- Anti Trust against Standard Oil
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- Amendment requiring direct election of senators
- Mann Act against White Slavery
- Meat Inspection Act
- 9 General Interest Magazines
- 9.1 Saturday Evening Post
- 9.2 Ladies Home Journal
- 9.3 newsmagazines
- 9.4 Time (1923)
- 9.5 Life (1936)
- 9.6 Reader’s Digest (1922)
- 10 Segmented Audiences
- 10.1 Post World War II
- 10.2 Growth of Titles
- 250 (1950)
- 20,000+ (today)
- 10.3 Women’s Magazines
- 10.4 Independent Production
- desktop publishing
- inexpensive photocopying
- web magazines
- 11 Specialization of Magazines
- 11.1 Consumer Magazines
- 11.2 Membership Magazines
- 11.3 Trade Magazines
- 11.4 niche audiences