To what extent should magazines be held responsible for the social ramifications of the representations they offer?

In each of the magazine covers i have chose the similarities are:
1)well known famous star on the cover.
2)3 basic colours on the covers.
3)have coverlines.
4)have a bold masthead.
5)have a number on the front cover in bold.

To what extent should magazines be held responsible for the social ramifications of the representations they offer?

The extent in which magazines should be held responsible for the social ramifications of the representations they offer is they are responsible for almost 90% of it.

Almost every magazine has “sexually-explicit material which is potentially in breach of the industry's editorial code.” Many complaints have been made to a variety of teen magazines, as they believe that magazines are teaching 11-15 year olds to look the ‘right’ way, most teen magazines have many different cover lines with things like; "Dress to impress." "Easy hair makeovers." "Find the perfect hair, makeup, and style for you!" "Be a knockout!" This is ‘brain washing’ teens and making them feel like they don’t look ‘pretty.’ Most teenage girls take this to heart and make them want to change something about themselves to make them look ‘good.’

I don’t think the “sexually-explicit” material should be totally removed from teenage magazines, I think that they should only put small amounts of it in a few pages of the magazine and try and make it less “sexually-explicit”.

I think that magazines need to cut down on how many ‘new looks’ they put in the magazines as its making teenage girls feel as if they’re not pretty and want to look like the people in the magazines.

I feel as if magazine cover lines need to be replaced with something simple but catchy but not sexual/raunchy. Some images used in the magazines and covers are a bit too revealing so I think that the magazine companies need to take a step back on it and make them wear fashionable clothing which will inspire the teens instead of making them envy all of the stars with amazing clothes which are large amounts of money. Hair and Beauty tips need to be left as simple things like easy things to do for people ages from 11-15. 

Many people will agree that teens are being shown promiscuous things in magazines and turning them into something they’re not, its making them wear clothes that are suited for older teens, making them wear more make-up than needed and making them look fake.

I conclude that magazines need to cut down on the amount of fake things they put into magazines, stories that are sexually explicated and images that are too raunchy for teens to see.

(quotes taken from)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/4990907/Teen-magazines-are-sexualising-readers-says-watchdog.html

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/30544/popular_teen_magazines_and_their_possible.html