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Deconstructing Newspapers

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Deconstructing Newspapers This edition of the newspaper 'The Sun' was published on the 13th November and includes 5 stories on the front page.  The Mast Head is in bold and the red and white colour contrast against each other in order to make sure it stands out.  The Main image of the Queen is for a story that is not the main story which is not a typical convention of a newspaper. The underlining of the headline is important as it reiterates the urgency of the issue of which reflects the ideology of the newspaper itself on the subject of transgender people.

Adbusters huck interview

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Adbusters huck interview The ideology is to go ' head on against the whole fucking industry.' It subverts typical conventions as it uses a website to communicate with it's audience, it is threatening, creepy and unsettling. They do not have an office, they accept open submissions. This ideology is evident in the set text as it is constantly repeated that we should not be manipulated by the adverts. The picture anchors the text as it gives it a caption 'The joy of being advertised nothing', it has also been submitted by the audience so it reaps a marxist ideology. It has anarcist connotations of which suggest Adbusters is trying to wake u the people

Advertising through Adbusters

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How does the website reinforce the brand identity of the magazine? Is there a clear 'house style' that is evident across the magazine and the website? What does the website offer that is different from the content of the magazine? How does the website extend the Brand? How does Adbusters extend the brand? How can reader interact with Adbusters? It is important for print magazine publishers like 'Adbusters' to have an online presence as it allows them to publish content that they would not be able to print. For example on the Adbusters website it features a 'video of the week' section, the only way content like this could be viewed in print would be through storyboarding and for a clip this long would take up  lot of space and cost a lot to print, upping the cost of the magazine for the audience. This way the audience can view it online for free and is made portable through the rising popularity in handheld devices. Additionally 

Adbusters exam question

Exam practice question The representation of women in Adbusters is consistently subverted, the use of binary oppositions, as proposed by Claude Levi Strauss, is subversive as whilst the model is represented as stereotypical, she is juxtaposed with the economic migrants. The intertextuality of the migrants is subversive as we normally see them in charity adverts present a binary opposition against the wealth of the woman. This suggests she is more well off than the man which subverts patriarchal hegemony and is not common in a media product. In every case in Adbusters, the gender norms have been subverted, the hegemonic ideas of gender have been challenged. For example, the lack of anchorage in the image in Adbusters, of which forces the audience to come up with their own readings, the assumes the audience has a high level of education and may be middle class. A style called culture jamming is constantly used in the magazine to create confusion within the audience - a binary oppositio