Sunday, October 7, 2007

Cosmo Comparison

Hello, my name is Tasha Roy. Today in my first blog that I will be talking about is about the comparison of the magazine "Cosmo Girl" and the web site www.cosmogirl.com. (This blog is late.) The magazine and the web site most people would say are one in the same. They both tell you a lot of things most girls would like to know, have to know, or are interested in. The magazine that I own talks about thing's like looks you should have for the first day of school, idea's for hooking up with CUTE guys, the magazine also has quiz's with the title's like Do you really want a boyfriend OR do you really need a boyfriend?, has story's about girls or guys about things that might have happen to them and would like to share there stories with the world, gives tons of tips on lot's of things like, style's, things you can buy and so much more. The web site that I when on for the topic talks about different things like horoscope's,beauty, fashion, life advice, guys, entertainment, fun and game's, free stuff, and last connect things (means place's to connect to.) Basically you can say these two things are in deed one in the same. But the way they present them is the way I think they are very different. With a magazine you go to the store and spend your money on the one that looks really cool has a lot of facts and such and the one you can show off to well you are reading. The way people do that is by who is on the magazine it's self. No girl is going to want to buy a magazine with a world on it or the elderly, or family's on it and such. They want a really hot really nice looking girl on the cover. They want a nice big picture of an airbrushed girl like Hillary Duff, Ashley Tisdale, Zac Efron or Jessica Simpson. The magazine that they will want is something that will stop them, and make them read it. When they find there magazine other thing they look at is it something i'm going to read? I think most people read or skim though the magazine before just looking at it and giving it a chance of it being good. The magazine has to have really good saying's and such on the cover or the reader wont like it. I think that a Cosmo magazine is different from the web site is looking for the information. In a magazine, you have to look though the whole thing or just go thought it until you find the thing you would like to read. With the web site you have different topics and subjects. You can find them in the categorizes that are on the web site. If you are looking for something then it's right there. Other thing about the web site is I don't think its more popular then the magazine. unlike the magazine the web site has less pictures and I think that's what most people go for. Pictures tell the story, or they make you want to buy things, or something to look at when you are not doing anything. I think the web site is less popular because it doesn't have a lot of interesting headlines. I think thats what also gets a person to read there magazine.The web site however does have a lot of organized and I think they have a lot more things to talk about. I think the information is the same but the web site goes on a little more on the topics. So anyway, I guess I can go on how the magazine "Cosmo Girl" and the web site are kind of the same but in big ways different from each other I guess its the way you look at them theses are just my thoughts.

1 comment:

J. McConkey said...

Tasha - this was a really good analysis of audience. By examining who reads what and why - we can kind of look further at the types of media our population demands. Even if we don't want to admit it -we are part of the media machine......

Do magazines like COSMO GIRL really represent what it means to be a girl in 2007?