City Magazine Research Articles

THE ROLE OF THE CAPITAL CITY MAGAZINES IN PRESENTING THE KALMYK ETHNOS TO THE RUSSIAN AUDIENCE IN THE FIRST DECADES OF THE XIX CENTURY

The purpose of the study was to specify the representation of the Kalmyk ethnic group in St. Petersburg and Moscow magazines in the fi rst decades of the XIX century. The study of publications in the journals Vestnik Evropy, Syn Otechestva, Otechestvennye Zapiski, Sibirskiy Vestnik, Severny Arkhiv and other included the volume and details of information about the Kalmyks, the availability of historical and ethnographic information, the characteristics of the ethnic group and / or its individual representatives, the social status of the authors and the genre forms of the materials.The study has found that over the period under consideration the capital city magazines showed a gradually growing interest in the Kalmyk ethnic group, revealing its unusual history and culture to the Russian audience. The publications mainly belonged to contemporary authors, but texts from the XVII–XVIII centuries were also used, which made it possible to demonstrate the ideas about the Kalmyks at diff erent stages of their history.By the social status, the authors included offi cials, travelers, historians, ethnographers, writers, including the European ones and a Chinese one, which contributed to the creation of a diverse picture of the past and the present of the Kalmyk people. At the same time, the depth of topic coverage was determined by the breadth of the author’s outlook, their ability to observe, the degree of understanding and acceptance of a diff erent culture, and the place of the ethnic group in the overall plot of the text. The diff erence between empathy and immersion in culture led the authors in some cases to defi ne the Kalmyks as an “ignorant” people and, on the contrary, as a “shepherd”, demonstrating the highest level of originality. Most often, the texts created a collective image of the people or individual social groups. In historical discourse, the names of the Kalmyk rulers were called. Modern personalities were uncommon, as well as women – only three of them.The representation of the ethnic group was carried out mainly in voluminous genres – historical, ethnographic, historical-ethnographic and travel essays; less often – in the form of portrait sketches and reviews, which allowed magazines to provide diverse information and create a multifaceted image of the Kalmyk people.

시티팝의 형성과정과 21세기 시티팝의 유행 현상에 관한 고찰

This study provides an in-depth examination of the concept of Japanese City Pop, its historical formation process, and the urban pop trend in the 21st century. Individual interviews were conducted with domestic City Pop mediators, who served as City Pop guides. Qualitative research was conducted on the contents of individual interviews, focusing on City Pop guides, papers, newspapers, magazines, record guides, and online websites. First, City Pop basically pursued Western- and American-oriented musicality, but songs focused on the relationship with the space they felt and faced through Japanese singing. Here, space is a Japanese city, and more precisely, the lifestyle of Tokyo, a city on the border between daily life and leisure, with skyscrapers and resorts, is the subject of the song. Based on the abundance and stability brought by the economic boom in the 80s, City Pop demonstrates attempts to break the boundaries between daily life and leisure by responding to consumerism. At the same time, City Pop praises the sophisticated yet snob-like lifestyle, gaining sympathy from city life and young listeners who longed for urban life at the time. Even from the current viewpoint, this characteristic can be evaluated as the direction and identity of City Pop. Next, through a review of the 21st century trend of City Pop, young listeners can guess that City Pop is matching keywords such as abundance, relaxation, romance, and sophistication enjoyed by Japan in the 1980s. The keywords of City Pop they matched are of a nature that is hard to realize with the sensitivity of the current 2020s, and the scenery of the Japanese city that City Pop evokes is also unfamiliar. Hence, in the City Pop released 30-40 years ago, they discovered the consumerist North Talge language brought by the bubble economy, and it can be interpreted as enjoying it from the current perspective. In addition, while the sophisticated melody and arrangement of AOR advocated by City Pop display similarities to Western pop songs, it is interpreted that young listeners now recognize the characteristics of Japanese singing as a cool sound that feels new rather than uncomfortable. Therefore, from the perspective of current young listeners, City Pop is given the status of an old future and a new popular music. By examining Japan’s economic and cultural background that brought the City Pop trend, this study explored the concept and historical formation process of City Pop as a type of J-Pop and the identity and image of City Pop. In addition, the review of the trend of City Pop in the 21st century revealed it seeks the possibility of a new popular music and is created from the current perspective beyond the meaning of the revival of music from the past.

Determinants of self-paid rotavirus vaccination status in Kanazawa, Japan, including socioeconomic factors, parents\u2019 perception, and children\u2019s characteristics

BackgroundJapan’s National Immunization Program does not cover rotavirus vaccine and no government subsidies are available. This study aimed to measure the uptake of and determinants that influenced self-paid rotavirus vaccination, including socioeconomic status and relative poverty.MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional study at health check-ups for all children aged 18 months in Kanazawa, Japan, between December 2017 and July 2018. Community nurses collected information on self-paid vaccination history, parents’ perceptions of and recommendations for rotavirus vaccine, and socioeconomic status in interviews using a unified questionnaire. We used multivariable logistic regression to assess vaccine uptake and possible determinants.ResultsIn total, 1282 participants were enrolled. The estimated rotavirus vaccine coverage was 72.9%. Perceptions that rotavirus gastroenteritis was serious and that the rotavirus vaccine was effective, pediatricians’ recommendations, information from the city office, magazine and Internet articles, and higher parental education level were associated with higher rotavirus vaccine uptake. Lower household income was associated with decreased rotavirus vaccine uptake. Vaccine expense, fear of adverse reactions to the vaccine, number of household members and siblings, and children’s characteristics were not correlated with rotavirus vaccination. Poverty was associated with decreased rotavirus vaccine uptake, even after adjustment for other determinants (adjusted odds ratio 0.49, 95% confidence interval: 0.26–0.90).ConclusionParents’ perceptions, socioeconomic status, relative poverty, and pediatricians’ recommendations are determinants of vaccination. This study suggests that appropriate information about rotavirus vaccine, subsidies for those of lower socioeconomic status, and national recommendations are necessary to achieve higher coverage.

Fresh Pages from Charles Bowden

Fresh Pages from Charles Bowden Jennifer Powers-Murphy (bio) In 1991, I started working for Tim Schaffner, a young literary agent who the previous year had relocated the agency his father founded in New York City in 1948 to Tucson, Arizona. One of Tim's authors at the time was Chuck Bowden. Tim could see a wider audience for Chuck's work than purely regional interest and had taken him on as a client, adding to a roster that included Maxine Hong Kingston, C. E. Poverman, Gary Paul Nabhan, and the James Beard Estate. I met Chuck in May, when he stopped by the office to pick up finished copies of his book Desierto: Memories of the Future. Although he didn't know it, I was somewhat indebted to him for my new position. For some reason, Tim's previous assistant had been afraid of Chuck, which made her working relationship with him difficult, if not impossible. My friend Laura Greenberg had worked for Chuck and Dick Vonier at City Magazine, where she produced great work under their editorial guidance. Revered for quality writing, eclectic voices, and outstanding photography, City Magazine was a liberal-leaning publication that refused to pull punches, even if it meant going after one of their own. When they thought Tom Volgy, the Democratic mayor, wasn't devoting enough time to running Tucson, they ran a contest asking readers if they knew where the mayor was. I reasoned that if Laura could work with Chuck, I could too. I wanted to develop good working relationships with all of Tim's authors. The first thing I noticed when I met Chuck was his height. He was 6 feet 4 inches and had to duck to enter the office. The second was his voice. A twelve-grit low growl. Finally, there were his eyes. They looked straight into mine. Yours. Everyone's. It was this trio of physical traits combined with an insatiable curiosity that made people not just willing to answer Chuck's questions, but to divulge their most intimate and confidential details. [End Page 86] After the introductions, he complimented the Baja Arizona T-shirt I was wearing. I complimented him on his new book. Not long after, we were on the phone, and for reasons I don't recall, Ben Bradlee's name came up. Chuck acknowledged a job well done on Watergate, but was quick to bring up Janet Cooke, the Washington Post reporter who received a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for her story "Jimmy's World," about an eight-year-old heroin addict, that turned out to be fabricated. Chuck thought Bradlee should have recognized the story as fake straight away but overlooked it because she worked for the Post. I told him I suspected the story was fake when I started reading it, then became convinced by the time I got to the metaphor describing a needle going into the child's vein "like a straw pushed through the center of a freshly-baked cake." We recited the line in unison. Blood Orchid was on deck to be published next, but the opportunity to co-author a book on Charles Keating intervened. Chuck had interviewed Keating for City Magazine, and had contacts with people at American Continental. A deal was struck with Random House and Chuck developed an obsession with Keating that would consume him for the next two years. Although Trust Me: Charles Keating and the Missing Billions exists as a bit of an anomaly in Chuck's body of work, it's the book he worked on for the majority of time I was professionally associated with him at Schaffner Agency. Chuck's creative process included a lot of verbalization, his first step in synthesizing the information he collected from research and interviews. The phone calls were epic, rarely less than an hour in duration. I listened carefully, noting questions to ask later rather than interrupt his train of thought, and answered honestly whenever he intoned, "You follow?" Chuck and I got to know each other very well during those conversations. The subjects were wide ranging and we agreed on more than we disagreed. We discussed politics a lot. He...

How Niche Magazines Survive and Thrive Through an Industry in Turmoil

In recent years, many general-interest magazine publishers have had problems maintaining stability. What can these publications learn from smaller, niche titles that have remained successful through the same industry changes? This paper will examine three major strengths for niche magazines that general-interest magazine publishers lack: their reader devotion, their careful approaches to digitalization, and their use of paid digital content. These strengths are analyzed in three case studies from different sub-genres of niche publishing: a city magazine, a luxury product magazine, and a hobby magazine. This paper offers practical suggestions general-interest magazines can implement. Looking at the successful practices suggests the potential to address industry-wide problems and to potentially yield more stable magazine publishing environments.

Public roles and private negotiations: Considering city magazines’ public service and market functions

Editors at city and regional magazines face the same competing loyalties as other local journalists, including sharing information about their cities while considering the interests of their organizations, readers, and advertisers. This study used in-depth interviews with city and regional magazine editors ( N = 11) around the country to explore how they navigate public and private interests affecting their work and the implications of these negotiations for their journalistic identity and the perceived functions of their publications in communities. The results shed light on how the editors negotiate a focus on private-service content, which attracts readers and revenue, and public-service content, which serves the magazines’ journalistic role.

“Ese pequeño arte que tanto amamos”: Remediating Cinema in El Universal Ilustrado

The Mexico City magazine El Universal Ilustrado (1917-34) is best known today for its promotion of the avant-garde estridentista movement and the rival Contemporaneos group; however, the publication’s engagement with cinema, unparalleled in the Mexican press, has gone largely unexamined. This essay contends that El Universal Ilustrado ’s remediation of cinema through literary, journalistic, and visual discourses negotiated between postrevolutionary cultural nationalism and US mass culture, and thus between the intellectual ambitions of lettered elites and emerging popular audiences. Cinema’s social effects in the period highlighted a perceived divide between cultural producers and consumers, given Mexico’s status as an importer rather than a producer of moving-image entertainment. At the same time, the publication staged procedures for assimilating the medium of film (as a technology, an industry, and a set of subjective experiences) by linking cinema to new forms of urban circulation and erotically charged social encounters, highlighting Mexicans’ role as cultural producers in the imagined space of Los Angeles, and articulating and enforcing ideals for domestic film production and consumption. El Universal Ilustrado ’s visual and verbal heterogeneity allowed it to negotiate the conflicting cultural meanings attached to cinema, even as discourses on the medium reinscribed hierarchies of nation, race, gender, and class.

The Contribution of City Magazines to the Urban Information Environment

American city magazines today must appeal to audiences who have new ways to find community information. User-generated digital content and social media have supplanted not just newspapers but also city magazines’ service stories and restaurant listings. City magazines also have new opportunities for in-depth coverage that newspapers can no longer afford. This content analysis of nineteen US print city magazines examines their contribution to their communities’ information environment, particularly their mix of coverage, approaches to hard news, and representations of people and places. The study suggests ways to sustain these magazines during industry and technological changes through deeper, diverse coverage.

The Good Life

This study examines the discursive strategies used within US city magazines to create imagined communities of readers and idealized versions of cities. Using textual analysis, the author evaluates editorial content in three issues each of five frequently award-nominated city magazines—Los Angeles magazine, Cincinnati magazine, Portland Monthly, Memphis magazine, and Indianapolis Monthly. The findings reveal that these publications directed their content toward highly educated, affluent, engaged readers through emphasizing ways they could experience their cities through consumption and highlighting issues and perspectives important to upper-class “insiders.” The magazines also prioritized lighter content focused on positive aspects of cities, ultimately constructing sanitized depictions that often neglected opportunities to address the challenges of urban life. Overall, the magazines tended to promote meanings that appeal to the powerful, subverting opportunities to educate readers about how to fully experience and contribute to their cities. Therefore, the author suggests means through which these publications can empower their readers to respond to community challenges, including enhanced diversity among sources, incorporating calls to action within coverage, and providing insight and analysis into cities' most pressing problems.

Critical cosmopolitanism in the emergence of cultural modernity: reflections on discursive imagination in Hong Kong and Shanghai

One might ask, what are the colors of cosmopolitan hybridity, and to what extent does or can the totality of representation that frames cultural discourse take on a life of its own? This paper examines the pictorial history of City Magazine (haowai) and the underlying mentalite that made it a successful voice in the emergence of 1980s pop culture in Hong Kong. But was this success the product of its distinctive eclectic, critical ethos that underscored its content or the systematic end point of a sophisticated commoditization of its extrinsic social values?

City Magazines and Social Media: Moving Beyond the Monthly

City magazines have long been established in many American locales, but digital media of all types are now offering opportunities and challenges to this genre of magazine. Digital media have also complicated the rapidly changing ecosystems of local information in which urban citizens reside. The resources and popularity of newspapers and broadcast news have shifted, and other forms of print, digital, and mobile media are assuming important roles in informing the public. With all these factors at work, this may be a pivotal moment for city magazines as they explore innovative technology, creative business strategies, and the new possibilities for coverage that these offer. As part of a larger, multi-method project, this study analyzes to what degree city magazines are using Twitter to move beyond a monthly publication schedule, to activate and engage audiences in new ways, and to address local topics and concerns. This study reveals that city magazines are informing the public and engaging their audiences through social media in limited but promising ways. It also strongly suggests that these magazines may indeed be using technology to move beyond their traditional monthly publication schedule and become a more vibrant part of local audiences’ information environment.

CROSSING TEHRAN AVENUE

The online city magazine TehranAvenue.com (TA) occupies the transnational crossroad of digital and urban space. It thus provides an important case study of how urban studies, postcolonial theory and critical cyber studies can be combined fruitfully to explain the potentialities and limits of digital and social networks in transnational Middle Eastern contexts. The article explores metaphors of the Internet as city, theories of transnational urban space and recent studies of the Internet and its politico-cultural uses in Iran to establish a theoretical method that can explain the simultaneity of local and transnational in digital and urban spaces. Qualitative data (email and telephone interviews with TA's founder, editor and contributors), combined with content analysis of the site, supports the claim that the city as metaphor and metonym can account for the intersection between contemporary North African and Middle Eastern digital spaces and national and diasporic urban spaces. The digital city – or blogabad – expands physical urban space into transnational networks. But there are important limits to the transnational reach of mediated social networking practices. In fact, the located identifications of web users are often much more important than the global reach of the technologies they use.

I Did it For Me: Negotiating identity and agency

Scholars have debated the feminist critique of female beauty practices for years with the fundamental disagreement revolving around the notion of “agency.” This study used textual analysis to explore how the concept of “agency” has been employed in cosmetic surgery ads placed in large city magazines. Three themes emerged: realize your potential, pleasing yourself, and control your destiny. This research expands our understanding of how physicians are repositioning cosmetic surgery to women through discourses that empower, appeal to their sense of self, and play upon feminist sensibilities that privilege individual choice. This research also contributes to the literature surrounding the ongoing debate of agency by examining how it plays out in another form of text previously unexamined (physician advertising) and how it touches upon a new player in the health beauty system (physicians) rather than prior studies, which focus on idealized images in the media.

Using Sexual Appeals in Advertising to Sell Cosmetic Surgery: A Content Analysis from 1986 to 2007

This study provides an account of how sexual appeals are used to promote cosmetic surgery. A content analysis of advertisements appearing between 1986 and 2007 in large city magazines reveals that advertisements position surgery as a means of boosting sex-esteem, and enhancing one’s sexual attractiveness, a pattern different from that of branded consumer products and services. Invasive procedures such as liposuction and breast augmentation are the top procedures advertised with sexual appeals and most advertisements feature nude or partially-nude white female models. The findings help expand knowledge about cosmetic surgery advertising, how sex is used to sell an ideal beauty standard attainable through invasive medical services, and the use of sexual content in a new context, that of medical-related advertising for cosmetic surgery.

The Content of Cosmetic Surgery Advertisements Placed in Large City Magazines, 1985–2004

Cosmetic surgery advertisements largely were banned from the mass media until the 1982 Bates Supreme Court decision. Today, advertising is one of the major marketing drivers of cosmetic surgery procedures. Yet, little is known about the content properties of cosmetic surgery advertising, a sometimes controversial and increasingly competitive field. This study examines 1,857 cosmetic surgery advertisements in large city magazines over two decades, 1985–2004. Among other things, the results indicate that most advertisements used rational vs. emotional appeals and that physician credentials increased in importance. Risk information was virtually non-existent and some content may be at odds with medical codes of ethics.

The Quick and the Dirty: Ephemeral Systems in Silicon Valley

October 01 2019 The Quick and the Dirty: Ephemeral Systems in Silicon Valley Jennifer Gabrys Jennifer Gabrys Jennifer Gabrys is a Ph.D. candidate in Communication Shjdies at McGill University, where she is completing her dissertation, The Natural History of Electronics. She has published widely on topics related to media landscapes, including "Media in the Dump" forthcoming in Trash: Alphabet City Magazine (2006); and Airdrop, an artist's book published through Bookworks (2004). She is a contributing editor to the bi-annual Surface Tension supplement. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jennifer Gabrys Jennifer Gabrys is a Ph.D. candidate in Communication Shjdies at McGill University, where she is completing her dissertation, The Natural History of Electronics. She has published widely on topics related to media landscapes, including "Media in the Dump" forthcoming in Trash: Alphabet City Magazine (2006); and Airdrop, an artist's book published through Bookworks (2004). She is a contributing editor to the bi-annual Surface Tension supplement. Online Issn: 2572-7338 Print Issn: 1091-711X © 2006 Jennifer Gabrys2006Jennifer Gabrys Thresholds (2006) (31): 26–31. https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00263 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Jennifer Gabrys; The Quick and the Dirty: Ephemeral Systems in Silicon Valley. Thresholds 2006; (31): 26–31. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00263 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsThresholds Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 2006 Jennifer Gabrys2006Jennifer Gabrys Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

The Tasman Sea - Common Ground That Keeps Us Apart

For a list of the kind of Australians New Zealanders know about, the title story of Lloyd Jones’s 1991 collection Swimming to Australia and Other Stories is a useful source. Warren, in a bid to gee up enthusiasm for a proposed migration to Queensland, tells his de facto partner, “‘That’s another thing, Marilyn. We would have new heroes. More of them.’ And he began to reel off the names of famous cricketers, tennis and league players.” (36) Whatever such heroes Warren may have identified, they are unlikely to have included the Australian novelist and short story writer Robert Drewe, in Wellington recently for that city’s biennial Writers and Readers Week. Warren’s ignorance, however, is not indicative of a parallel ignorance on the part of his creator. Lloyd Jones, who like Warren knows about sport, also knows about Robert Drewe. In fact, in the December 1985 - January 1986 edition of the short-lived Wellington City Magazine, Jones reviewed Drewe’s own collection of short stories, The Bodysurfers (1983). Jones’s ninety-nine words fail to exhaust the potential for comment on Drewe’s bestseller – published by two different companies, and the subject of seven reprints – but they do nonetheless focus attention on the stories’ most striking motif: “Bodysurfers is ... an exploration of the beach and its curious sub-culture”. The stories in The Bodysurfers are uniformly set at the beach. Jones’s comments on Drewe’s work are of particular interest when considered in the light of Swimming to Australia. Like The Bodysurfers, Swimming to Australia repeatedly locates stories at the sea coast. What is more, the symbolic significance of the beach in Jones’s stories is strikingly similar to that in Drewe’s collection. I should make it clear from the outset that I do not intend to mount an argument for plagiarism here. Far from it. No one writer, least of all in Australia or New Zealand, could presume to hold the rights to the use of sea, beach and coast as motifs. Furthermore, the recurrence of marine motifs is just one among several ploys for suggesting liminality in Swimming to Australia. Given the similarities between the two writers’ stories, however, and Jones’s obvious familiarity with Drewe’s writing, it may be that Jones has been influenced by Drewe; it is impossible to tell. This article will point out likenesses between the two collections, before suggesting a less polemic explanation for them.

A Quasi-Experimental Measure Of The Effectiveness Of Destinational Advertising: Some Evidence From Hawaii

A quasi-experimental assessment of Hawaii Visitor Bureau's city magazine advertising campaign shows an inelastic visitor demand with respect to advertising and a disparity in market responses in different cities. The tourism return on advertising expenditure ratios obtained is about half of those ratios usually obtained in conversion studies.

Numbers Grow, Problems Remain for City Magazines

Numbers Grow, Problems Remain for City Magazines

City Magazines, Newspapers Serve in Different Ways

City Magazines, Newspapers Serve in Different Ways