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By Julian Tu
Where did the word Magazine come from?
Magazine and Journals
Magazine and the new era (E-Zine)
Similarities between the new and old generation magazine.
1575–85 – Storehouse or storehouse of information “[French] magasin < [Italian] magazzino < [Arabic] makhāzin” (dictionary.com).
Today, it is a periodically issued collection that contains essays, stories, poems, photographs and drawings. (by different people)
A magazine usually subjects in a theme. (Ex. sport, health or history)
First published in 1731-1907 (5 series)
Found by Edward Cave, LondonOriginally Called Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly
IntelligencerEdward Cave edited under the
name “Sylvanus Urban”
(http://www.alanmann.com/class/files/GENTLMAG.pdf)
Difference in writing style:
Scholarly Journals: “Field-specific language/jargon, requires reader to be in touch with other research in the field.”
Popular Magazine Articles: “Written in everyday language accessible to any generally knowledgeable reader.”
(www6.wittenberg.edu)
Online magazine: e-zine, webzine, cyberzine, hyperzine and so on.
Still being debated (Wiki)Cult of the Dead Cow, cDc, claims to
have publish the first e-zine, 1984 (individual article publication)
1985, Phrack started to produce collections of articles in a similar manner to a printed magazine.
cDc communications
People with interest in focuses in certain
e-zine(s). (Ex. Sports, health, games)
People who are looking to discuss the interest in real time (author or other readers)
First site to publish e-zine in a printed Magazine format.
By writers for writers e-zine: authors write for readers to
read.
Community: writers write for other writers to read. (similar to forums)
Ex. Themestream.com – They are closed down due to their lack of resources to keep the site up.
Their main revenue is sourced in advertisements.
Printed magazines receives some income from sales of products.
Most e-zine are “free” <read with out subscription> They highly depend on web Ads and affiliations.
Most Journal sites requires a log in.
http://ejournals.emory.edu/
http://www.freesticky.com/stickyweb/articles/themestreamcloses.asp
www.pickeringchatto.com www.wikipedia.org www.bodley.ox.ac.uk Dictionary.com http://www.digital-archive.org http://www.cultdeadcow.com/ http://wwww.Phrack.com http://tools.devshed.com/c/a/Website-Content/
Themestreamcom-is-closing-its-doors/ http://lib.utsa.edu http://ejournals.emory.edu/ http://www.alanmann.com