save the planet kill yourselves

7 Star improvements for your kitchen and are you an a-level beauty? are articles in Woman magazine.
Save the planet kill yourself is a typical adbusters article, this is direct and unpleasant.


  1. The articles in magazines are normally set up to make them easier to read but in adbusters they have dark unaligned titles with an inconsistent colour. Wonky typeset.
  2. The poor typesetting is a symbolic code and it makes the audience feel uncomfortable or it is symbolising how the world itself is falling apart.
  3. It makes audiences feel uneasy as it makes the audience wonder if they have done something wrong as it has a very low production value.
  4. This article is provocative as they are trying to make the audience scared as to their influence on the environment.
  5. Climate change is meant to shock and scare us as this magazine is meant to be thought inducing.
  6. Newspapers talk about more trivial things rather than complicated issues that will make audiences feel bad.
  7. This article positions the audience as being the villain as they are just trying to stay alive and by doing so they are inflicting irreversible harm to the whole world.
  8. There are no images to distract the audience from the articles and photographs of dire situations that the audience has caused themselves.
  9. The world is awful and the article is making the audience aware of all the bad that is happening but it doesn't tell the audience what to do to fix it.
  10. The article is hard to read as it is the same thing over and over, its saying that we should be ashamed because of x mount of reasons.
  11. The last paragraph is like a light in the dark telling you what you can do but then the audience will read it and realise that it doesn't get any better as it has not ideas as to what you can do, its so vague.
  12. Adbusters is really unlikely to change the world around us as it just scares audiences.
  13. Abusters sells 120,000 copies a month and this is a small audience. They aim at the same audience as every other magazine but they only reach a small amount of them, they aim to a niche audience.
  14. There is no solution to any of the many problems they mentioned.
  15. Only anti capitalist vegans or hip rich trendy people read this magazine as they have 10.99 to spend on a bunch of paper telling them exactly what they already believe. 

ABUSTERS WEBSITE


  • Adusters.org is available all day everyday unlike the magazine which is only available in libraries and certain shops.
  • This website targets a larger audience.
  • The website has an informal lexis
  • The coming together of different media platforms- digital convergence.
  • Adbusters doe have a brand identity is t be annoying and inyaface as well as anti capitalist. Its edgy and quirky.
  • The website sells clothes and packages of allegiance.



















































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