How young people see themselves has a lot to do with how the media represent them.
At your school, what magazines does your school library media center subscribe to? 
Do these publications tell students everything they need to know? Do they deal with stereotypes,
body image, product placement? Is the content of the magazine influenced
by the advertisers? These are just some issues to consider as you begin
to study magazines and media literacy.

• Annual Magazine 300 Report (Adage)
• Barking at the Hand That Feeds
• Blurring The Line
  magazines face new pressure as marketers seek to blend advertising with content
• Can we judge a magazine by its cover?
• Chasing an illusion: young women and magazines
• Create A Classroom Magazine
• Creating a Classroom Magazine
• Deconstructing Cosmo Girl Cover Image
• Deconstructing Ads Aimed At Young Women (3iying adflip)
• Entertainment mags grab teens attentions
• Faking It: Sex, Lies, and Women's Magazines
• Fashion industry using sex to sell ad nauseam
• Fashion mags draw protests by printing tobacco ads
• Fashion magazines show more body types
• For magazine industry, less may be more
• Hard hitting anti-smoking ads target fashion magazines
• How to navigate teen magazines (CSM)
• How to tell you're a Details Reader
• If You Want to Sell Celebrity Mags, Put Her On The Cover (Forbes)
• Lennon/Ono Photo Deemed Best Ever Magazine Cover
• Lesson Plan: Deconstructing Magazine covers (CML)
• Lesson Plan; Magazine Ads and You, The Teenager
• Lesson Plan: Magazine Production
• Lesson Plan: Magazine Redux: An exercise in critical literacy
• Magazine ad pages (The Cover Models May Not Be Fatter, but the Issues Are)
• Magazine Ads Send Mixed Messages (study)
• Magazine ads make women feel bad (study)
• Magazine cover choices tell alot
• Magazine Cover Images
• Magazines: What Adolescent Girls are Reading and the Way They Shape Body Image
• Magazines drop print for Web to reach teens
• Magazines Use Online Ads As Selling Point
• Magazines: words and images
• Match game: match the mag with the audience
• Media Literacy Workshop: men’s magazines
• Media may fuel eating disorders
• Men's Magazines and the Construction of Masculinity
• Newsmagazines tend to ignore Latinos
• PRESS GROUP ATTACKS MAGAZINE PRODUCT PLACEMENT
• Print medias hot new star: celebrity magazines
• Race & Representation in Magazines
• Reading Up on Teen Culture (3 parts)
• A semiotic analysis of the front covers of Marie Claire and Diva
• Seventeen Magazine Self-Image, And Stereotypes
• Study finds magazine ads offensive
• Teaching Current Events via Newspapers, magazines, TV
• Teen magazines blamed for rise in girls’ suicide (UK)
• Teen magazines send girls all the wrong messages
• Teen magazines send mixed messages
• Teen mags, so five years ago
• Teen People and the soul of young folks
• Teens and Magazines
• Tweens, Teens, and Magazines – Fact Sheet
• Unhealthy products featured in mags targeted to minorities
• Using magazines in your classroom
• US Magazine FAKE NEWS: Fact checking celebrity cover stories for truth
• Vogue breaks boundaries with curvy, heavier Jennifer Hudson on cover
• Vogue Cover with Lebron James, Criticized
• Women Of All Sizes Feel Badly About Their Bodies After Seeing Magazine Models
• Women's Magazines Hop Into Bed With Big Tobacco

Periodical Recommendation  

Book Recommendations  other books here
 

Other recommendations:
The Magazines Handbook, Jenny McKay
Reading Women's Magazines by Joke Hermes
Making Sense of Men's Magazines by Jackson, Stevenson and Brooks
Media, Gender and Identity by David Gauntlett