Magazine Feature

Ipads and tablets and its effect on young children.  Is it better or worse for them?  What do teachers think? 

Magazine collage

My collage is about light, dark, and space.  On the left side there is a dark sky with one beam of light, I added a storm trooper to the bottom so it looks like he is holding the light.  Next to that is a car that has all these really cool colors.  To the right of that is a cut out of words saying "Lights in the Dark."  Above that is a picture of what looks to be a lunar module that is glowing pink.  On top of that I put a cut out of a sentence that says "he sees it as a way to take a look at a parallel universe...."  Then above that is a picture of a sky that says "Let's Go Places."  In the middle of everything is a man made of colored lights that looks like he is breaking through the page.  I chose these pictures because the story it is telling is "to break out of the dark and into the light," to go places, and be yourself, to be different. 

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Proposals for Featured Articles

1. Fast food and its affect on people's lives (Ex. McDonalds) How will people's lives be different if they continue to eat like this? Will fast food exist in the future if we know its bad for ourselves?
2. Children having tablets, and learning off of iPads, kindles, etc. What will that make the future like? Will the way of teaching be different?

Adbusters Magazine

Adbusters magazine describes itself as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age.”  Adbusters is an “anti-advertising: it blames advertising for playing a central role in creating, and maintaining, consumer culture.  This argument is based on the belief that the advertising industry goes to great effort and expense to associate desire and identity with commodities.”

The first five pages are just black, with either one sentence or nothing on it.  After that there are two pages of animals on it.  Then after that there are a bunch of comments made by people about the previous edition of the magazine.  There’s honestly a bunch of random articles in here that don’t appeal to me, and make me not want to read it.  There are a lot of weird pieces and pictures in here.  Two pages next to each other are a blown up picture of a coyote or dog-like animal thats dead and was hit by a car. I can’t tell who the targeted audience it.  Online it says it is anti-consumerist and pro-environment.  Therefore anyone who believes in such topics is probably attracted to this magazine. 

Wired Magazine

Wired is a monthly American magazine that reports on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.  It is headquartered n San Francisco, California and has been in publication since January 1993.  

This magazine’s audience is for people in their mid 20‘s to mid 30‘s, because most people older than that are not connected to the technology world.  The Wired magazine edition of October 2012 has a cover of a man holding a “machine that will change the world.”  The machine he is holding is the new replicator 3-D printer.  Having this machine on the cover perfectly describes the kind of magazine Wired is.  Inside the magazine there are more articles on technologies.  One example is, there are two pages on 7-inch tablets, the Nexus 7, Nook Tablet, Toshiba Excite 7.7, and Samsung Galaxy Tab 27.0.  Another page shows a bunch of smartphone toys.  

The advertisers in this edition of Wired are: Omega, RadioShack, Lexus, Rolex, Delta, Movado, Cadillac, Kohler, Samsung, Banana Republic, Bulova, Marriott, Bud Light, Dodge, Xerox, Honda, Heineken, hp, Dyson, Skype, Volkswagen, Columbia, Diet Coke, Geico, Hyundai, AT&T, Windows 7, ups, Verizon, IBM, monster, Gillette, Otter Box, incase. 


This magazine was informative and technical.  It had a lot of information on technology.  For someone looking into tablets, phones, or even the 3-D printer, this magazine could help answer a lot of questions.