J-14 Magazine Analysis

Nowadays many magazines gossip about the supposedly exciting lives of famous people, and J-14 is one of those. The particularity of this magazine is that it is completely targeted for teenagers between 12 and 15 years. J-14’s articles and images are full of topics related to beauty, fashion, and love; the magazine is completely oriented for girls, superficial, and does not typically touch on or contribute to any relevant topic in society. A person with a mature criteria and education can realize easily that J-14 is not giving teenagers much useful learning; contrarily, the magazine is forming false and non-caring teenagers who only care about their image and for pretending that they are older. Ultimately, the magazine J-14 can be characterized
Although the magazine touches some favorable points, like one article on page 44 against sexual assault, the editors should enhance their content in a way in which they do not harm anybody and contribute to society by teaching something useful to their readers. Additionally, it is important to raise these critiques in order to prevent further exploitation and to generate conscience in teenagers and their parents. It is essential to think about what could happen if exploitation keeps growing in other aspects of daily life. Society could be improved without worrying too much about famous people’s lives and instead doing something useful. Also, everybody could be more confident without all these standards of “perfect boy” or “perfect girl.” The magazine could improve by deepening in educational or reflective topics that are interesting. Ultimately, J-14 can be addressed as an exploitative magazine for forming unethical prejudices to gain a profit, taking unfair advantages of teenagers’ ingenuity, and deliberately advertising to rise