Heatworld.com is a popular entertainment website interested in looking at the daily celebrity news and gossip from around the world, although mainly in the UK. The website was a development from Heat magazine, a popular weekly entertainment magazine. This in itself shows how new media has advanced as such a website which needs to be kept up-to-date so often has only really been seen in recent years as technology has advanced (technological determinism). The website includes message boards, forums, competitions and much more which allow the user to interact on many different levels.
Celebrities and showbiz gossip have exploded and become immensely popular within today’s culture. Magazines line the newsstands weekly and with this have led the explosion of entertainment websites. Not only this but they allow the audience to interact with each other, allowing them to have discussions and feel like they believe they know what they are talking about when it comes to celebrities. The fact is, what they are saying is only their opinion, as what we read in the papers/magazines/websites can be purely fabricated.
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do you think magazines like this have only developed and progressed onto the internet becuase of the huge phenomenon of our interest in celebrity gossip and lifestyles&they know the internet is the most popular form of media at the moment so it makes sense to use the most popular form of media to broadcast a really popular issue??
Thats exactly why i think theyv expanded alyson!no one necessarily buys magazines anymore due to the increased prices therefore magazine companies have found a gap in the market and therefore decided to expand into the internet.
It is a very quick and easy way of uploading the news stories plus it is a gud way to promote the magazine and maybe increase sales.
Sarah,
I think this works as a fine introduction to your website. The comments that you make about the immediacy and intereaction of media, is very relevant to its appeal.
All the best
Emma
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