Together with the group of fellow students we we able to observe and discuss similarities and differences of the two magazines we brought. The first one was the U.S. based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics and pop culture named "Rolling Stones". The second - "Snob" - is international magazine in russian language for people who live in different countries, speak various languages, but think in russian.
Both magazines are published on glossy paper and have similar formats. The front page is featuring the cover interview or story of the issue, accompanied by the abundant photographs. The publications contain advertisements that mostly specified for particular group of people; both of them have correspondence pages where the stuff is able to keep communication with the readers; the style of the photographs are quite unique, it is simple, but charming; each of the magazine has specific columns and opinion pieces that are repeated from issue to issue; both magazines have particular font, size, format and color specified by the stuff or group of designers.
While looking through both of the publications we were using different senses. We smelled and touched the paper that magazines were published on; in order to follow music news, first we had to listen to it; we observe - sight - images that both of them contained; some of the ads have particular products that we might try in the past (so you could feel that particular taste in your mouth while observing them).
While two texts are totally different in content, they could still interest the same or completely opposite group of people. For ones there might be the language barrier, while for others it does not exist. When we have language barrier, we could observe and still be able to make inferences and suggestions.
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