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Media visuality and racialisation: Who is in the spotlight?
| Resumo: | Acknowledging their sociocultural relevance and the exceptional affordances they offer, lifestyle magazines are part of a long-lasting, globalised, and hegemonic industry. Released or inspired by the United States of America and the United Kingdom, many of them tend to follow or get inspired by their editorial and representational trends. Literature reveals how racialised people appear less frequently and with specific dehumanising contours on the various media outlets, including this semiotic genre, of which examples are 'Women’s Health' and 'Men’s Health' magazines. To understand how hegemonic whiteness is promoted by these lifestyle magazines, this article presents a study of their main covers, employing multimodal critical discourse analysis. Intersectionality theory and decolonial studies inform this analytical approach. Considering a body of literature, through cover participants and semiotic resources altogether, whiteness, racialised sexual objectification, racial privilege, and strategic fitnessist appendix are the main detected discourses. These allow the unveiling of a colonial eye. This chapter ends by raising questions in a discussion and recommending a more careful approach to diversity and media. |
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| Autores principais: | Ribeiro, Pedro Eduardo |
| Outros Autores: | Cabecinhas, Rosa |
| Assunto: | Lifestyle magazines Magazine covers Racialisation Multimodality Intersectionality Ciências Sociais::Ciências da Comunicação Reduzir as desigualdades |
| Ano: | 2026 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | capítulo de livro |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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| author | Ribeiro, Pedro Eduardo |
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| description | Acknowledging their sociocultural relevance and the exceptional affordances they offer, lifestyle magazines are part of a long-lasting, globalised, and hegemonic industry. Released or inspired by the United States of America and the United Kingdom, many of them tend to follow or get inspired by their editorial and representational trends. Literature reveals how racialised people appear less frequently and with specific dehumanising contours on the various media outlets, including this semiotic genre, of which examples are 'Women’s Health' and 'Men’s Health' magazines. To understand how hegemonic whiteness is promoted by these lifestyle magazines, this article presents a study of their main covers, employing multimodal critical discourse analysis. Intersectionality theory and decolonial studies inform this analytical approach. Considering a body of literature, through cover participants and semiotic resources altogether, whiteness, racialised sexual objectification, racial privilege, and strategic fitnessist appendix are the main detected discourses. These allow the unveiling of a colonial eye. This chapter ends by raising questions in a discussion and recommending a more careful approach to diversity and media. |
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| spelling | engEdições HúmusengAcknowledging their sociocultural relevance and the exceptional affordances they offer, lifestyle magazines are part of a long-lasting, globalised, and hegemonic industry. Released or inspired by the United States of America and the United Kingdom, many of them tend to follow or get inspired by their editorial and representational trends. Literature reveals how racialised people appear less frequently and with specific dehumanising contours on the various media outlets, including this semiotic genre, of which examples are 'Women’s Health' and 'Men’s Health' magazines. To understand how hegemonic whiteness is promoted by these lifestyle magazines, this article presents a study of their main covers, employing multimodal critical discourse analysis. Intersectionality theory and decolonial studies inform this analytical approach. Considering a body of literature, through cover participants and semiotic resources altogether, whiteness, racialised sexual objectification, racial privilege, and strategic fitnessist appendix are the main detected discourses. These allow the unveiling of a colonial eye. This chapter ends by raising questions in a discussion and recommending a more careful approach to diversity and media.application/pdfengMedia visuality and racialisation: Who is in the spotlight?Ribeiro, Pedro EduardoCabecinhas, RosaHostingInstitutionOrganizationalUniversidade do Minhoe-mailmailto:repositorium@usdb.uminho.ptrepositorium@usdb.uminho.ptCITATIONRibeiro, P. E., & Cabecinhas, R. (2026). Media visuality and racialisation: Who is in the spotlight? In R. Cabecinhas, I. Macedo, & L. Lins (Eds.), Living memories & media (pp. 173–205). Edições Húmus.ISBNIsPartOf978-989-9275-63-8HandleHasVersionhttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/10151220262026-01-01T00:00:00ZHandlehttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/101711http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2open accessLifestyle magazinesMagazine coversRacialisationMultimodalityIntersectionalityhttp://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdfFields of Science and Technology (FOS)Ciências Sociais::Ciências da Comunicaçãohttps://sdgs.un.org/goalsSustainable Development Goals (SDG)Reduzir as desigualdades2325512 bytesFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.‘Sentidos e discursos na imprensa de lifestyle portuguesa: Objetificação e interseccionalidades nas revistas ‘Women’s Health’ e ‘Men’s Health (UI/BD/151164/2021)https://hdl.handle.net/1822/97338UI/BD/151164/2021Crossref Funder IDhttp://doi.org/10.13039/501100001871European CommissionConfidently Changing Colonial Heritage (101132582)HORIZON Research and Innovation Actionshttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/100780101132582Crossref Funder IDhttps://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780literaturehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248book part2026http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/openAccesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2application/pdffulltexthttps://repositorium.uminho.pt/bitstreams/8b057bd8-1d44-449d-abaa-3c439f94cd92/download173205 |
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