Response 4: Magazines

From this class lecture I learned a lot about magazines I never would have learned due to how its becoming a dying media. It has been demassified, and moved to niche advertising. But it was once a great American pass time that all would read and converse about. It created serialized stories, personality profiles and so much more making it so important for our history. It set standards in our society for later media to follow. For example the personality profile, more commonly known as tabloids, these were the interesting stories about famous people one could read and gossip about. Or do another, serialized fiction, later setting the idea that books could be series. This little piece of history set so many paths for the rest of literature to later follow which made it an fascinating part of our history.