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Regulation - A rule or direction maintained by an authority.  IPSO - The Independent Press Standards Organisation is the independent regulator of the newspaper and magazine industry in the UK. They  hold newspapers and magazines to account for their actions, protect individual rights, uphold high standards of journalism and help to maintain freedom of expression for the press. Both online and print news need to be regulated. This is due to past scandals such as phone hacking within the news industry and regulations need to be in place in order to prevent things like this happening again. Algorithms are something used in moderating content. Algorithms are computer programs that scan for certain things, such as certain words or phrases. The issue with these is that they are easily avoidable. For example spelling a word a different way or adding spaces  in-between. Since algorithms are unreliable for regulation in newspapers and magazines, organisations like IPSO use moderators to regulat
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The Big Issue

Weekly magazine   •  Publisher  – Dennis and The Big Issue Ltd.   •  Genre  – Independent/Current Affairs/Entertainment/Street magazine   •  First published  – 1991   •  Creators  – John Bird and Gordon Roddick   •  Current cover price  - £2.50   •  Current circulation  – 82,000   •  Distribution method  – “ Since the magazine was founded, we have been in partnership with the people who sell it. Vendors buy The Big Issue for   £1.25   and sell it for   £2.50 . Each seller is a micro-entrepreneur who is working, not begging ” T he magazine is one part of The Big Issue Ltd alongside: The Big Issue Foundation – an independently funded charity which provides support and guidance for vendors in areas such as training, education, health and housing Big Issue Invest – helps to finance sustainable social enterprises, charities and a social trading platform The Big Issue Shop – buyers purchasing eco-friendly products, or products from organisations which use profits to support social enterprise
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Vogue

Vogue  is an American monthly  fashion  and  lifestyle magazine  that covers many topics, including fashion, beauty, culture, living, and  runway . Based in New York City, it began as a weekly newspaper in 1892 before becoming a monthly magazine years later. Since starting up in 1892, Vogue has featured numerous actors, actresses, musicians, models, athletes, etc. Social attitude to gender 1960's Fashion in the decade mirrored many of the social changes of the Sixties. The mini skirt became popularised in 1960s fashion. The mini was designed to be free and liberating for women.  Feminism began to become a more influential ideology as more jobs became available to young  women in the Sixties .  This allowed them to move away from home and become more independent. The contraceptive pill became legalised for all women in 1967 and gave them the opportunity to broaden their hopes and dreams far beyond motherhood and marriage. The Women’s Liberty movement was in its infancy when in 1968
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Attitude

 Target Audience- Older, Homosexual men. 30+ Very Broadsheet like, aka plain pages with long text on articles. Home page is filled with pictures and headlines for stories.  There is a few ways to interact with Attitude such as at the bottom of the page there is a Get In Touch action where you can send messages, or you can get in touch through their social medias which are upfront on the website. However there is no direct way to interact with producer to help with content so is quite old fashioned in that sense. Passive audience. Masthead – sans serif, no capitals (modern, informal) Colour Palette – bright colours, but lots of white space (crisp, clean  layout). Topic colours (underneath stories) are all rainbow banner  colours Website layout & design – newest stories at the top (immediacy),  stories categorised by topic. All shaped the same = consistent, clean  layout (similar to other sites such as YouTube). Easy to navigate.  Professional, but not flashy. Website features – navi
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Zoella

 Zoella is mainly a lifestyle YouTuber and blogger, creating vlogs of her everyday life, fashion and makeup along with other more individual posts of for example challenge videos. Her main target audience would be teenage girls and long term fans since her start in 2009. Within her vlogs and blog posts she doesn't just show her daily life and what she does, she talks to her audience about things and tends to interact with her audience through comments. In her early years of youtube, the main content type that she done was makeup and skincare tutorials, talking about mostly just the products and other products related to the video, she also talks about other things and talks directly to her audience. She later digressed to vlogs about her everyday life again talking directly to her audience, linking it in with a parasocial interaction. She interacts with her audience in quite an informal manner as if she was interacting with a friend of hers again showing the parasocial interaction.
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How far might audiences respond differently to representations? (Life on Mars)

In life on mars, many characters are represented differently. Gender is represented in a number of ways through certain characters. Each character typically confides to their times representational norms. For example, Sam's girlfriend in the modern day goes by her own initiative and goes after a hunch showing the times more confidence in women not doing what men tell them however Sam had told her that she's off the case, showing a degree of male control. The audience would typically see this to be a strong woman as a dominant reader would see what the show is trying to convey, on the other hand an oppositional reader may think that she is falling into stereotypes of women through being 'dumb' and following her hunch rather than viewing her as a strong independent woman. Oppositely in the past sequences, Liz, is only medical and help out with admin work and is not allowed on any cases, she is also very oppressed and called names by the stereotypical men of the time. Liz
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Nordic Noir

 Nordic Noir also known as Scandinavian Noir is a genre of crime fiction, typically written from the perspective of the police. It is set in Scandinavia or Nordic countries.  Plain language avoiding  metaphor  and set in bleak landscapes results in a dark and morally complex  mood , depicting a tension between the apparently still and bland social surface and the murder, misogyny, rape, and racism it depicts as lying underneath. It contrasts with the  whodunit  style such as the  English country house  murder mystery.
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