Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Canadian Magazine, Canadian Illustrated News, American News Company
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Offered comments, criticism and satire trying to influence public taste. Liked to discuss national and international politics. Informal essays, fiction as well as satire and sarcasm from defoe"s review. Frivolous articles: leading fashions of the time (more like pop. magazines)and how to host a tea party. Periodicals were just bits of text containing scientific info. Take a few decades for the journal magazine to resemble more of a magazine that we"re used to, but they still resembled books more than magazines. These popular magazines were intended to be gentile soapboxes from which literate men expound their points of view. Focused on social commentary other than news. Style of magazine imported into north america. By 1865 there were over 400 newspapers in british north america alone, and all of them got readership from magazines (?) Most magazines at this time lasted just a few months to a few years.