Cosmopolitan Magazine
The media text I recognise as exemplifying consumer culture in contemporary society is Cosmopolitan magazine. Its tagline on their website is 'fashion, beauty, sex, relationships'. It offers to women the 'wanna-be' model by offering them beauty products, slimming advices, tips for the perfect relationship and sex life etc. It is consisted of number of advertisements of products, that would create for them the image of the perfect woman. It also provides information on celebrities lives, and tips 'how to do that as a certain famous person'.
I used to be a regular reader of that magazine when I was of younger age (about 18- 18 years old), and by then I used to be fascinated of the articles, giving me all this 'glamorous' information and advices how to 'have the perfect life'. When I grew older, I realised it is all a market strategy to make women buy the magazine. After the vast amount of issues of the magazine I bought, I realised the articles are quite similar, and would not provide me that 'perfect' lifestyle. After all this is just a magazine full of pictures of beautiful ladies, and good looking men, and expensive beauty products etc. The sections on relationship advices would not make your own personal love life more successful, just by reading an article. As I said it is all a market driven product, which is made to be sold. I believe that publications of that sort (also 'Glamour') and such, are just made to create an image of the life we want to have, but we simply cannot afford. Even though reading the articles makes you think 'I can have a life like Paris Hilton if I buy this expensive lipstick', after purchasing it, you come to realise you are not having a celebrity life. I don't tend to buy and read these magazines anymore, unless I just happen to have one around, and want an easy read to entertain.
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