Dishant Media 1 Blog (exam)

Judith Butler argues that gender is a performance and that gendered behaviour is socially constructed. To what extent do your magazine close study products support the idea that gender is a performance.[25 Marks] Judith butler argues that gender is a performance and gendered behaviour is socially constructed, she suggests that gender is a performance and the way we behave and that gender is not natural and that we have learned to become the way which we are and that our views on traditional masculinity and femininity have been constructed. I think that our close study product, being Men's Health does not supports the idea that gender is a performance as the magazine is supposed to reach as wide of an audience as possible to increase the sales of its products, however in this case chooses not to and instead chooses to appeal to a very niche audience. Already by having a name such as Men's Health, this suggests that half the population have already been cut out of the potential

1) Hearst UK is part of Hearst Communications. What is Hearst Communications and where is it based? Hearst owns a wide variety of  newspapers ,  magazines ,  television channels , and  television stations  is an American mass  media  and business information conglomerate  based  in New York City, New York. 2) What media industries and brands make up the Hearst Communications conglomerate? Hearst communications are a media based company which has many assets and holdings in the media industry. It owns some of the leading Newspapers, Magazines and television channels which are based in America, but are distributed and broadcasted around the world. 3) What was the global revenue for Hearst Communications (in dollars) for the most recent year on record? Hearst communications made a massive 10.8 billion dollars last year(2017), however there was not an increase from the previous year and every successful company would of course aim to have an increase in revenue every year unless