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- Media Technologies: Class 6, Magazines
- European magazines
- 1.1 originated in Europe in 1700s
- 1.2 magasin: storehouse of reprinted content from other sources
- 1.3 elegant and amusing writings
- Literature
- Politics
- Music
- Theater
- Personalities
- American miscellanies
- 2.1 variety of content
- 2.2 pappeal to small, far-flung audiences
- 2.3 short-lived due to American Revolution
- too few readers
- high costs of publishing
- expensive distribution
- American partisan magazines of the 18th century
- 3.1 William Bradford’s American Magazine
- 3.2 Ben Franklin’s General Magazine and Historical Chronicle
- 3.3 Thomas Paine’s Pennsylvania Magazine
- Popular 19th Century Magazines
- 4.1 Mass Production
- machine printing
- lowered cost per issue to 35 cents
- increased reach
- 4.2 Enhanced Magazine Covers
- artistic drawings
- color images
- article teaser
- 4.3 Advertising
- lowered cost per issue
- more revenue for magazines
- more pages for advertising and editorial content
- Consumerism
- 5.1 mass-produced goods
- 5.2 department stores
- 5.3 catalogs
- 5.4 advertising created a connection between consumers and mass
producers
- Photography
- 6.1 wet process photography
- 6.2 roll film
- 6.3 half-toning
- 6.4 photojournalism
- 20th Century Urbanization
- 7.1 industrialization
- more factories and foundries
- assembly line production
- workers
- leisure time
- 7.2 growing urban society
- 7.3 reading grew as a mass medium
- Muckraking
- 8.1 Progressive Era
- 8.2 Titles
- 8.3 Important Works
- Ida Tarbell
- Great American Fraud
- Senators
- Daughters of the Poor
- The Jungle
- 8.4 Reforms
- Anti Trust against Standard Oil
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- Amendment requiring direct election of senators
- Mann Act against White Slavery
- Meat Inspection Act
- General Interest Magazines
- 9.1 Saturday Evening Post
- 9.2 Ladies Home Journal
- 9.3 newsmagazines
- 9.4 Time (1923)
- 9.5 Life (1936)
- 9.6 Reader’s Digest (1922)