maglab | magazines under the microscope

Changing the Subject: from the Gentleman’s Magazine to GQ and Barack Obama

November 1, 2009 // 0 Comments

Andrew Calcutt, November 2009 Summary: Magazines are mercantile: they originated as accessories to market expansion before turning more towards domestic interiors [more...]

Who Needs Journalism?

October 1, 2009 // 0 Comments

Andrew Calcutt, October 2009 Summary: Magazines, perhaps more than newspapers, have always offset their reporting of the outside world with the creation of an interior [more...]

Contract Publishing

November 1, 2006 // 0 Comments

Richard Sharpe, November 2006 Summary:Client publishing, customer magazines, contract publishing – it goes by various names but the reality is unmistakable. All [more...]

Why Magazines Lead the Journalism of Low Expectations

November 1, 2005 // 0 Comments

Summary: The continous role of magazines is to contribute to the mediation of contradictory social relations, i.e. the essential contradiction between social production and [more...]

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