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Mod 10_Ch. 9 Questions Magazines_Survey of Mass Media Communications

Mod 10_Ch. 9 Questions Magazines_Survey of Mass Media Communications

Q Why did magazines develop later than newspapers in the American colonies?

Q Why did most of the earliest magazines have so much trouble staying financially solvent?How did magazines become national in scope?What was the social impact of the most popular women's magazines in the nineteenth century?What role did magazines play in social reform at the turn of the twentieth century?When and why did general interest magazines become so popular?Why did some of the major general-interest magazines fail in the 20th century?

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The lack of well-developed printing technology in the society and a middle-class that had not become aware and understood the need of magazines led to the development of the magazines much later than newspapers. Also, when magazines started to emerge it started out with catering to the public like the educated and the merchant class, focusing on topics relevant to them.