questions and notes

so i made a major cock up, or a cop up if you will, and lost my tutorial notes, no idea where they went, they were in my notebook and now they arent, but hey ho life goes on, maybe theyll show up
i think i recall the main points

we narrowed down a question along the lines of what is the role of printed media in the world of social netweorking and communication
because then i can go on to ask all of the questions that need encompassing into one blanket title
the comparisons, rather than taking their own section in the essay, will be used as citations to back up my points as first hand research, triangulated with found sources
we have established that higher end magazines are selling lifestyle and lower are selling celebrity because the audiences live aspirationally and realistically respectively

so questions

- why do celebrity magazines create celebrities in order to tear them back down again
- why does this occur less frequently in higher end magazines
- to what extent does manipulative language feature in different magazines, high low men women,
- when did the obsession with celebrity start
- can one separate article from advertisement
-does the printing of an article increase our perception of its validity
-can online media have the same weight as printed
-with news able to travel instantly online will printed news media become obselete
-how reliable are the sources of news, compared in different mags, and has news become more or less reliable with the influence of the internet
- why do publishers still make printed magazines if most of the content is available online, and all of it could exist online
- how has the internet affected the industry already
- who are the key figures in the printed magazine industry and what potential vested interest do they have in keeping it running
- haves sales figures changed http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/article/1333599/magazines-abcs-top-100-glance
- what is the difference in language use between mens magazines and womens magazines
- what is the difference in language use between higher and lower end magazines
- is the magazine a self fulfilling industry (cirlce jerk)
- it is still possible to control the quality, validity and suitability of the news being distributed with online media platforms being so widely used
-how has the imediacy of the internet affected our perception of celebrity, can they be build and crushed before the story has even got to print
- what could the future hold for print magazines

an initial brainstorm
more questions, or more edited questions to come

a quote for the road, from useful new website i found, media week, talks magazines in business terms

Underlining the point, Colin Morrison, the author of Flashes & Flames, notes the decline of one of the biggest sectors of the past 15 years: "The six best-selling celebrity weeklies, which fuelled media company profits in the years before they were upstaged by Twitter and YouTube, together now make the same profit once generated by Bauer’s Heat magazine alone."