Comments on: 5 Steps to Landing a New Job http://www.menfront.com/5-steps-to-landing-a-new-job/ Mens Magazine Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:26:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: HUSEYIN http://www.menfront.com/5-steps-to-landing-a-new-job/comment-page-1/#comment-4682 HUSEYIN Sun, 16 May 2010 11:42:35 +0000 http://www.menfront.com/?p=203#comment-4682 A discussion of recent ‘creative’ research projects introduces the original methodology undertaken as part of this study. Young, predominantly male readers of men’s magazines were encouraged to produce ‘scripts’ – which consisted of an illustrated front cover and contents listing – detailing an imagined lifestyle magazine of their own. 100 such scripts were collected, with participants based in Doncaster, Preston, Wigan and Leeds, and drawn primarily from high schools, colleges and a prison. The material they produced, together with their own written discussion of this work and their wider experience of men’s magazines, formed a body of research data upon which further conclusions are based. A relationship is hypothesized between young men’s apparently heightened interest in forms of gossip surrounding media celebrities, and an increasing awareness of their own sense of masculinity as something that is personally constructed and purveyed. It is suggested that new men’s lifestyle magazines, with their frequent demonstrations of ‘ironic performances’ and ‘edited personalities’, both facilitate and reflect this process. A discussion of recent ‘creative’ research projects introduces the original methodology undertaken as part of this study. Young, predominantly male readers of men’s magazines were encouraged to produce ‘scripts’ – which consisted of an illustrated front cover and contents listing – detailing an imagined lifestyle magazine of their own. 100 such scripts were collected, with participants based in Doncaster, Preston, Wigan and Leeds, and drawn primarily from high schools, colleges and a prison. The material they produced, together with their own written discussion of this work and their wider experience of men’s magazines, formed a body of research data upon which further conclusions are based.

A relationship is hypothesized between young men’s apparently heightened interest in forms of gossip surrounding media celebrities, and an increasing awareness of their own sense of masculinity as something that is personally constructed and purveyed. It is suggested that new men’s lifestyle magazines, with their frequent demonstrations of ‘ironic performances’ and ‘edited personalities’, both facilitate and reflect this process.

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