Issues Of Magazine Research Articles

Calcium, Vitamin D, Iron, and Folate Messages in Three Canadian Magazines.

Data from the Canadian Community Health Survey showed that calcium, vitamin D, iron, and folate are nutrients of concern for females 19-50 years of age. The study objectives were to assess the quantity, format, and accuracy of messages related to these nutrients in selected Canadian magazines and to examine their congruency with Canadian nutrition policies. Using content analysis methodology, messages were coded using a stratified sample of a constructed year for Canadian Living, Chatelaine, and Homemakers magazines (n = 33) from 2003-2008. Pilot research was conducted to assess inter-coder agreement and to develop the study coding sheet and codebook. The messages identified (n = 595) averaged 18 messages per magazine issue. The most messages were found for calcium, followed by folate, iron, and vitamin D, and the messages were found primarily in articles (46%) and advertisements (37%). Overall, most messages were coded as accurate (82%) and congruent with Canadian nutrition policies (90%). This research demonstrated that the majority of messages in 3 Canadian magazines between 2003 and 2008 were accurate and reflected Canadian nutrition policies. Because Canadian women continue to receive much nutrition information via print media, this research provides important insights for dietitians into media messaging.

Tanning Shade Gradations of Models in Mainstream Fitness and Muscle Enthusiast Magazines

Tanned skin has been associated with perceptions of fitness and social desirability. Portrayal of models in magazines may reflect and perpetuate these perceptions. Limited research has investigated tanning shade gradations of models in men's versus women's fitness and muscle enthusiast magazines. Such findings are relevant in light of increased incidence and prevalence of melanoma in the United States. This study evaluated and compared tanning shade gradations of adult Caucasian male and female model images in mainstream fitness and muscle enthusiast magazines. Sixty-nine U.S. magazine issues (spring and summer, 2013) were utilized. Two independent reviewers rated tanning shade gradations of adult Caucasian male and female model images on magazines' covers, advertisements, and feature articles. Shade gradations were assessed using stock photographs of Caucasian models with varying levels of tanned skin on an 8-shade scale. A total of 4,683 images were evaluated. Darkest tanning shades were found among males in muscle enthusiast magazines and lightest among females in women's mainstream fitness magazines. By gender, male model images were 54% more likely to portray a darker tanning shade. In this study, images in men's (vs. women's) fitness and muscle enthusiast magazines portrayed Caucasian models with darker skin shades. Despite these magazines' fitness-related messages, pro-tanning images may promote attitudes and behaviors associated with higher skin cancer risk. To date, this is the first study to explore tanning shades in men's magazines of these genres. Further research is necessary to identify effects of exposure to these images among male readers.

Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: Little Magazines and Localist Modernism by Eric B. White

Reviewed by: Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: Little Magazines and Localist Modernism by Eric B. White Paul R. Cappucci Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: Little Magazines and Localist Modernism. Eric B. White. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2013. xii + 270 pp. $112 (cloth). There are moments when you read a critical study that you know it’s something special, that it will garner a prominent place in literary scholarship for years to come. Eric White’s Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: Little Magazines and Localist Modernism published by Edinburgh University Press is just such a book. White’s engaging monograph examines the transatlantic movement of little magazines produced throughout the modernist period and expertly chronicles the dynamic collaborations that formed and reformed the avant-garde in multiple locations. [End Page 84] Based upon extensive archival research, that includes unpublished manuscripts and magazine issues, White’s monograph combines multiple, critical approaches to reveal the complex interconnections forged amid a transatlantic avant-garde community. It offers a revisionary examination of the ways literary modernists considered specific locales in the cultivation of experimental writing and national identity. Through his approach, White examines how William Carlos Williams, Alfred Kreymborg, Jean Toomer, and others participated in the transatlantic construction of American literary modernism. He posits, as noted in his prologue, “a version of localist modernism that configures the aesthetic expressions of avant-garde modernists as responses to specific regions and cultural moments. However, it locates the development of those responses within rather than outside of the transatlantic discourse networks of the early twentieth century” (4). White frames his book in terms of “locational” and “localist” formations of modernism, key distinctions in the field of transatlantic studies, and his study divides into six chapters that offer extensive, insightful analysis of the multiple iterations of little magazines, as well as the key figures involved in their production. He starts with an examination of Alfred Kreymborg’s Others: A Magazine of the New Verse and argues that this magazine “laid the textual groundwork for the localist avant-garde to take root in” (15). Chapter 2 then turns from a locational to localist analysis of the little magazine world by focusing upon geographic places, as well as “private” work completed behind the scenes. Drawing upon recent archival research, White’s third chapter examines the permutations from a “locational poetics” to the emergence of “localist modernism” (16). The next chapter then offers an analysis of “the New Science of Advertising” with a fascinating look at how American localist writers “confronted the problem of place in the light of new economic and political realities.” In Chapter 5 White considers later developments, specifically the emergence of “alternative modernisms,” and offers a compelling exploration of the ways African American modernists participated in the transnational aesthetic, examining Broom, Secession, and S4N, as well as Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro, Survey Graphic, and Fire!! White’s analysis reveals how these later publications offer “unique articulations of a locational praxis which successfully undertook an aestheticised form of cultural critique,” as well as “new possibilities for approaching modernist problems of place” (17). Of special note is White’s breakdown of Jean Toomer’s modernist poetics as the formulation of a “new” American language rooted in the fusion of identities and geographic spaces. As part of this exploration, White considers the influence of uananimisme, a “transatlantic vogue” that “drew on ancient folk cultures to synergize urban environments” (149). White’s book fittingly concludes with an [End Page 85] examination of the ways “cultural localism” reemerged during the late modernist period. It focuses particular attention on 1924, Blues, Pagany: A Native Quarterly, as well as the revival of Contact. This “new localism,” as White incisively points out, “mediated a cultural transition in American modernism from imagist to objectivist poetics, where issues of race, class, and gender inequality in the inhabited world were brought into increasing contact with the written word” (17–18). From White’s study, William Carlos Williams stands out as one of the pivotal figures in this transatlantic movement. White threads Williams’s participation in numerous little magazine iterations throughout various chapters. With his contribution as the Associate Editor of Others, Williams promotes, what White perceptively describes as, “a new Franciscan order” for the...

Through the Looking Glass Continued (III): Update to Trends in Solid-State Circuits and Systems from ISSCC 2014 [ISSCC Trends

A two-part article, ?Through the Looking Glass II? was published last year (in the Winter 2013 and Spring 2013 issues of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine) to discuss the trends in solid-state circuits and systems based on papers selected by the program subcommittees of IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2013. This article highlights additions to those trends based on technical papers that are selected to be presented at ISSCC 2014.

Electronic Bits and Ten Gallon Hats

My dissertation uses the Enron Corporation to examine how companies use culture to shape political and economic systems. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the company morphed from a vertically integrated natural company into a derivatives trading house. An emphasis on innovation, free markets and knowledge work in the firm’s marketing efforts accompanied this organizational shift. Because the change was so dramatic, after its 2001 collapse the company became an ideal site for Americans to express cultural anxieties about the move away from Fordist production and toward an emphasis on working with complicated pieces of information. Drawing on archival sources such as issues of the employee magazine and executive correspondence, this study contributes to an understanding of the cultural work that must be performed in order to establish and maintain political economic systems, as well as the ways in which cultural production is used to make sense of economic change.

From the editor-in-chief August 2013

In this month's magazine issue, you will find a range of articles that emphasize and demonstrate our worldwide dependence on technical diversity. A global solar spectrum campaign is described which involves a spectrometer designed in Zurich. An automatic target cuer that speeds up our brain's natural ability to interpret and recognize objects by prescreening for specific regions of interest from large amounts of data along with an article describing MIMO SAR radar sensors are both topics of international interest. Of particular fascination to me, perhaps because I have never mastered more than one language, is multilingual speech recognition, of which an algorithm for robust recognition of three languages is described. Finally, we have an article on a software architecture for future Brazilian space missions. Looking through these articles, I see how technology is a bridge that closes many gaps of diversity; while conversely, diversity aids in the progression of technology. It is my sincere hope that you enjoy this issue, Part I, of your magazine as well as your tutorial, Part II.

Composition and framing in modern and postmodern time print ads: What has changed and what these changes might mean

This paper explores both possible changes regarding composition and framing in modern and postmodern tiME print ads as well as the meaning of these changes with respect to some of the main themes in the modern/postmodern debate. by comparing one-page ads from a 1929 and a 2009 tiME magazine issue, it identifies a shift from a balanced disconnected top-bottom composition to two unbalanced but more connected top-bottom compositions. Then, it attempts at interpreting this shift as a process of duplication of the modern compositional pattern, corroborating the position of social theorists who understand postmodernity as a phase within modernity itself.

Advertising of Toothpaste in Parenting Magazines

We assessed advertisements for children's toothpaste in two widely read US parenting magazines. Data on the number and type of toothpaste advertisements in two parenting magazines were collected from 116 magazine issues between 2007 and 2011. The number of children's toothpaste advertisements per year and across magazines was computed. The amount of toothpaste presented in each advertisement was categorized. We noted whether the toothpaste advertisement stated that the toothpaste was fluoridated. We identified a total of 117 children's toothpaste advertisements in these magazines and confirmed that the majority of the magazine issues contained at least one toothpaste advertisement. Of the 31 advertisements that depicted a picture of a toothbrush with toothpaste, all but one (96.8%) depicted a full swirl of toothpaste covering the entire toothbrush head, which is well over the recommended amount. The pictures on the advertisements show an excessive amount of toothpaste on the brush, which directly conflicts with the instructions on many toothpastes and dentist recommendations. Those advertisements with photographs that depict a toothbrush with a full brush head of toothpaste are showing over four times the recommended amount for children.

A Current Appraisal of Health- and Nutrition-Related Claims in Magazine Food Advertisements

This article reports a content analysis of health- and nutrition-related claims used in food advertisements in popular women's and men's magazines. The authors analyzed 734 food ads and 100 magazine issues. Their research shows that nutrient content claims (i.e., ones that focus on a specific nutrient component such as “low in fat”) are the most predominantly used, followed by general nutrition claims, structure/function claims, and healthy claims. The least used category is health claims, in which the advertised food is linked to reduced risk of a disease or health problem. The use of health- and nutrition-related claims differs across different food groups and types of magazines.

Comparison of Child Obesity Prevention and Control Content in Mainstream and Spanish-Language US Parenting Magazines

Mass media coverage of child obesity is rising, paralleling the child obesity epidemic's growth, and there is evidence that parents seek parenting advice from media sources. Yet little to no research has examined the coverage of child obesity in parenting magazines or Spanish-language media. The purpose of this study was to use qualitative and quantitative content analysis methods to identify, quantify, and compare strategies for child obesity prevention and control presented in mainstream and Spanish-language US parenting magazines. Child obesity−related editorial content in 68 mainstream and 20 Spanish-language magazine issues published over 32 months was gathered. Magazine content was coded with a manual developed by refining themes from the sample and from an evidence-based child obesity prevention action plan. Seventy-three articles related to child obesity prevention and control were identified. Most focused on parental behavior change rather than environmental change, and only 3 in 10 articles referred to the social context in which parental behavior change takes place. Child obesity−focused articles were not given high prominence; only one in four articles in the entire sample referred to child obesity as a growing problem or epidemic. Key differences between genres reflect culturally important Latino themes, including family focus and changing health beliefs around child weight status. Given mass media's potential influence on parenting practices and public perceptions, nutrition communication professionals and registered dietitians need to work to reframe media coverage of childhood obesity as an environmental problem that requires broad-based policy solutions. Spanish-speaking media can be an ally in helping Latina women change cultural health beliefs around child weight status.

Anti-feminist Caricature in France: Politics, Satire and Public Opinion, 1890–1914

The Belle Époque has been considered to be the peak years of French feminist and suffragist activism. Yet this period can also be seen as one of gender conflicts and contradictions that have been skilfully revealed by talented artists working in what is called the ‘golden age of caricature’. This article is conceived as an analysis and decoding of satirical representations of feminists by French political caricaturists at the height of the women's suffrage campaign. Their work circulated relatively freely in the mass illustrated press, targeting the dominant bourgeois political order and its failure to address social inequalities. Caricaturists also mocked bourgeois feminists and suffragists as class enemies whose demands for political rights would, in their opinion, provide no guarantee that their participation in politics would be any different from that of bourgeois men. Leading artists, such as Jules Grandjouan and Juan Gris, recycled the misogynous anti-feminist arguments so prevalent in the literature and social sciences of this period, and deployed a new visual language that expressed the extreme violence of this reactionary opposition to feminism. The article analyses three issues of the influential satirical magazine, L'Assiette au Beurre, devoted to feminism and feminists, women's suffrage, and their eligibilty for public office. The author argues that these caricatures were part of an aggressive countermovement against the bourgeois social order and against feminism as a legitimate political movement.

An Index to Articles Published in "The Etude" Magazine, 1883-1957 (review)

An Index to Articles Published in Magazine, 1883-1957. By Pamela R. Dennis. 2 vols. (Music Li - brary Association Index and Bibli - ography Series, vol. 37.) Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2011. [xvi, 1, 364 p. ISBN 9780-895797117 (pt. 1) and 9780895797186 (pt. 2). $250.] Chronological, author, title, and subject indexes. For seventy-four years The Etude published reflections of the musical scene. Sometimes these were actual photos: a composer in his study, the house where a famous musician was born, the latest set for a new opera production, the current diva at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, or fourteen women in saris carrying a grand piano on their heads in India. Other glimpses were from interviews with musical personages (Marian Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Vladimir Horo - witz, Lotte Lehmann, John Philip Sousa, Igor Stravinsky, and George Szell), Ameri - can entrepreneurs (Henry Ford, Theodore E. Steinway, Thomas A. Edison), and even a United States president (Harry S. Truman). Articles pertained directly or indirectly to music. This journal attracted professional and amateur musicians, as well as laymen with a passive or passionate interest in music. Even though the main focus of The Etude was music, there was so much more. Its articles communicated trends and attitudes within the country that influenced repertoire and performance and, in turn, the journal commented on art's effect on culture. Its publication began during the Progressive Era and promulgated a particular ideological slant which catered to the Genteel Society. It reflected America before, during, and after World War I; continued through the Roaring Twenties, the Depression, and World War II; and ceased publication a few months before the launch of Sputnik. Specific entries provided music teachers with articles to guide their teaching. Children had their own page(s) of musical games, theory, and history. Glossaries of musical terms, histories of instruments, compositional techniques, opera plots, book and media reviews, as well as essays on non-Western musical traditions all provided educational and entertaining reading. Within the more than 880 issues of The Etude magazine, there was literally something for everyone. It is easy to understand how these magazines became a musical reference library within many homes and why issues were saved. Pamela R. Dennis's two-volume index under review here joins E. Douglas Bom - berger's An Index to Music Published in Magazine, 1883-1957 (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press and Music Library Associ - ation, 2004) in providing systematic access to this important chronicle of American musical life. Up until now, a researcher might find information about a particular subject, topic or trend in the magazine, but was then limited to a random-chance method of finding any additional articles pertaining to it. Further explorations were haphazard at best. Dennis has remedied this frustrating and often dead-end situation by tackling the monumental task of compiling an index for The Etude with expertise and skill. As a result, the reader can now identify, locate, read, and utilize material contained within its 24,000 pages. Following a practice similar to the RIPM series, the 1,364 pages are divided into two volumes and four separate indexes. Author and chronological indexes are contained in part 1, with title and subject index in part 2. Every entry includes article title, year and month of publication, and initial page number. The chronological index gives title entries for individual articles in each issue from October 1883 through May-June 1957. These listings are presented by page/ publication order within each issue, not alphabetically. In the Anomalies section of her introduction, Dennis provides brief and concise explanatory notes regarding the omission of various column/section titles used by The Etude at various times during its publication run such as Editorials, World of Music, Musical Books Reviewed, Standard Music Extension Course, Edu ca - tional Study Notes, and European Main Topics, to name a few. …

Lazer, políticas públicas não governamentais e estudos conceituais, na revista Licere

Este artigo e fruto de uma pesquisa bibliografica e documental que teve por objetivo analisar a producao do conhecimento na area do lazer, relativa ao tema politicas publicas nao governamentais (organizacoes nao governamentais, clubes e estudos conceituais), a partir de publicacoes feitas de 1999 a 2009 na revista Licere. E um estudo de caso que se utilizou da tecnica da analise de conteudo. A pesquisa apontou que ainda e baixa a frequencia de estudos sobre a tematica, embora sua diversidade constitua avanco em relacao aos primeiros publicados no Brasil. Merecem destaque os seguintes aspectos: a abordagem ampla das politicas, entendidas nao apenas em sua setorialidade a contribuicao das areas das diferentes ciencias humanas, conquanto a ciencia politica seja pouco utilizada; e a fraca explicitacao metodologica, que reduz metodo a simples tipo de pesquisa, modo de observacao e tecnicas, nao explicitando seus processos discursivos.

(De)Constructing Paula Radcliffe: Exploring media representations of elite running, pregnancy and motherhood through cultural sport psychology

ObjectivesLittle is known about elite athletes who are mothers within the context of sociocultural expectations concerning motherhood and sport. The aim of this study was to extend such understanding by examining how the media manages and constructs one elite athlete's (Paula Radcliffe) identities within the context of motherhood and sport. DesignA qualitative approach grounded in cultural sport psychology was used to explore motherhood and athletic identity as socio-cultural creations shaped by cultural narratives (i.e., media). The psychological and behavioural implications were of interest. MethodA textual analysis (see McKee, 2003) of two issues of Runner's World magazine (March 2008, October, 2010) surrounding elite British marathon runner Paula Radcliffe's pregnancies was conducted. Visual data analysis of 37 images (see Griffin, 2010) further contextualized textual meaning(s). ResultsRadcliffe's identities were constructed within a higher order narrative: pregnancy and motherhood as redemption. This narrative had fluid meanings depending on how it framed two contrasting identities: 1. athlete and mother as one and 2. primarily a mother; athlete as secondary. An athlete and mother as one identity reinforced an elite athlete identity and high performance narrative. A primarily mother, athlete as secondary identity was linked to athletic accomplishments being downplayed and/or sacrificed in favour of motherhood. ConclusionsThis study opens a new window of cultural understanding and possibility for research and application concerning motherhood and athletic identities. These findings add to the cultural sport psychology and qualitative literature exploring elite mothering athletes.

Antioxidant Health Messages: In Canadian Women's Magazines

Recently, antioxidants have taken centre stage in media and advertising messages. While 80% of Canadians think they are well-informed about nutrition, many are confused about the health effects of specific nutrients. Forty-six percent of Canadians seek information from newspapers and books, and 67% of women rely on magazines. We examined the content and accuracy of antioxidant health messages in Canadian women's magazines. The top three Canadian magazines targeted at women readers were selected. A screening tool was developed, pilot tested, and used to identify eligible articles. A coding scheme was created to define variables, which were coded and analyzed. Seventy-seven percent of 36 magazine issues contained articles that mentioned antioxidants (n=56). Seventy-one percent (n=40) of articles reported positive health effects related to antioxidant consumption, and 36% and 40% of those articles framed those effects as definite and potential, respectively (p<0.01). The articles sampled conveyed messages about positive antioxidant health effects that are not supported by current evidence. Improved standards of health reporting are needed. Nutrition professionals may need to address this inaccuracy when they develop communications on antioxidants and health risk.

Does Vertical Integration Decrease Prices? Evidence from Paramount Antitrust Case of 1948

I empirically examine the impact of the 1948 Paramount antitrust case on ticket prices using a unique data set collected from Variety magazine issues between 1945 and 1955. With weekly movie theater information on prices, revenues and theater ownership for an unbalanced panel of 393 theaters located in 26 different metropolitan areas, I find evidence consistent with Spengler’s (1950) prediction that vertical integration lowers prices through the elimination of double-marginalization. My results show that vertically integrated theaters charged lower prices and sold more admission tickets than nonvertically integrated theaters. I also find that the rate at which prices increased in theaters were slower before vertical separation than it was after separation. A back of the envelope calculation suggests that losses in consumer surplus due to the Supreme Court resolution and the corresponding sale of theater holdings by Paramount and seven other companies were sizable.

H1N1 2009 influenza vaccine prevention: a comparison between the Italian press and the scientific recommendations

Methods: Messages broadcasted by the press were compared with national and internationalrecommendations regarding influenza vaccine. All of the issues of the 5 best selling national newspapersand the 2 best selling general magazines were read from 15 October 2009 to 15 November 2009 in order toselect the articles that addressed influenza vaccination. The major messages extracted from these articleswere compared with the scientific literature.Results: 217 articles out of 160 newspaper issues and 7 articles out of 8 magazine issues were selected.Articles mainly focused on the vaccine target population and on health care workers reluctance to bevaccinated. Dosage, side effects, efficacy and safety were other recurrent topics. Press-reported messageswere largely consistent with the scientific literature, except for the time interval needed between H1N1 andseasonal influenza vaccine administration.Discussion: The issue of vaccination against the H1N1 pandemic influenza received broad media attentionduring the study period. The information reported was usually correct, but sometimes it failed to conveyclear messages. In particular, concern regarding potential side effects and the low uptake of vaccinationin healthcare workers appears to have been associated with the very low vaccine uptake in the generalpopulation.

A Special Section from the WWRF [From the Editor

The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) and the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) agreed to continue cooperation, working together to serve the common interests of both organizations. Last year's March and September issues of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine included selected papers from the preceding WWRF meetings. This year the magazine will continue that model, and in this issue, you will find a special section with its own introduction and articles from the WWRF 25 meeting held in London last November.

Mass media health information available to young adults in the United Kingdom: (1) Daily newspapers and magazines

Abstract Consumers are increasingly challenging community pharmacists with mass media advertisements and news items. This has the potential to produce conflict as professional judgment, editorial priorities and advertising practices are inevitably not aligned. To explore the characteristics and distribution of health information in publications read by young adults (15- to 24-year-olds) in the United Kingdom, four newspapers and 29 magazines were surveyed over an eight-week period in January/February 1997. Nine hundred health items were found in 84 newspaper issues and 80 magazine issues. Newspapers commonly included health information in the form of advertisements and news items; magazines included features and readers' letters. Descriptions of disease treatment and states were the most common subjects. Although conventional therapies were featured more often than alternative options, there was a considerable number of advertisements and features for alternative therapies, especially in newspapers. Most therapeutic areas were included, but the central nervous system was the most prevalent. One hundred and ninety-six newspaper items (40.2 per cent), and 193 magazine items (46.8 per cent) referred to a specific drug or medicine. The drug properties most often described were indication and formulation. Side effects were more likely to be included in magazine items. There was a notable lack of references to professional information sources. Community pharmacists must be aware of the characteristics of this information to help consumers to make better informed self care decisions.

Does the Portrayal of Tanning in Australian Women’s Magazines Relate to Real Women’s Tanning Beliefs and Behavior?

Content analysis data on the tans of 4,422 female Caucasian models sampled from spring and summer magazine issues were combined with readership data to generate indices of potential exposure to social modeling of tanning via popular women's magazines over a 15-year period (1987 to 2002). Associations between these indices and cross-sectional telephone survey data from the same period on 5,675 female teenagers' and adults' tanning attitudes, beliefs, and behavior were examined using logistic regression models. Among young women, greater exposure to tanning in young women's magazines was associated with increased likelihood of endorsing pro-tan attitudes and beliefs. Among women of all ages, greater exposure to tanned models via the most popular women's magazines was associated with increased likelihood of attempting to get a tan but lower likelihood of endorsing pro-tan attitudes. Popular women's magazines may promote and reflect real women's tanning beliefs and behavior.