to what extent should magazines be held responsible for social ramifications of the representations they offer?

To what extent should magazines be held responsible for the social ramifications of the representations they offer?

there are carton magazines specifically aimed at teenage girl and appeal to them in carton ways. such as magazines like, Cosmo girl, bliss, shout, sugar and teen vogue. here are what there covers look like. these magazines all take a huge effect on teenage girls. all the covers have a celebrity on front that could be an idle to one of the readers, and also they extent of fashion sexual looks and free give aways that can make you feel insecure.

these magaiznes influence teenage girls in a bad way. making them grow up to quick wearing to much makeup going out drinking and being to sexualised. but is it completely the magazines and media's fault. in teen magazine such as the once above they are partly to blame for the way teen age girls are represented for example on the covers of teenage magazine they show very famous celebrity maybe the idol of teenage girls or a teen age celebrity crush on the cover but are placed in either a sexualised pose or in shouts case on the one above not very much clothing. and girls would want to be like there idle or act in a way they believe someone like "Justin Beiber" will like. magazines that are produced in aim at young teenagers fail to uphold there guidelines they are meant to follow in effect creates sexualisation within young teenagers. for though there are other forms of media that effect this magazines can be one of the worst as they don't have an age range of how old you have to buy them and they are not checked to see if they are right to be sold to these young children. the magazines add advertisement on make  up giving away "free" makeup having a harmful influence on teenage girls, making them feel insecure about themselves.

I started to look into other examples of ways that teen magazines are responsible for the social ramification of the representations they offer and came across the article

"Teen magazines are sexualising readers, says watchdog"

in this article it explains how there are girls as young as eleven years of age and they are reading this magazine. with sexual content inside and others such as pictures of naked mean question ares to see if you are gay and so on. these magazines have no age limit and parents can look at the cover and see that its a teen magazine thinking it will do no harm without actually looking at the content within the magazine. for although these magazines show this content they are also useful and are good for girls because if there is something they are worried about they can email in anomalously to get help from it.

there has been other articles that agree with this one and the sexualising of young girls like this one i found doing my own research.

"How do magazines affect body image"

this article shows the statistics in which 70% of teenage girls that magazines influence in an ideal body image, lowering there self a stem. and it also that teenage boys are affected by this as well as girls. from reading this article i linked it to the last article as the way a celebrity or someone in these magazines look and how "sexy" they are and girls wanting to look like them but becoming depressed and anxious when they don't. 

in conclusion i believe that magazines hold a huge responsibility to the representations they offer to teenage girls and i think that the huge amount of sexual facts and images should be taken out from these magazines and more things that you would imagine a teenage girl should be like not wanting to be sexy.

http://www.education.com/reference/article/how-magazines-affect-body-image/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/4990907/Teen-magazines-are-sexualising-readers-says-watchdog.html