Topic

I decided that a magazine feature/ cover interested me the most within this project, due to the wide range of topics, styles and audiences this is able to appeal to. Currently, I am interested in how drug use, drug addiction and youths are represented in the media; especially in newspapers in which they are most popularly presented in a very negative light. I wanted to explore this topic more and browse newspapers and magazines with different outlooks on drug use in this day and age.

One of the most popular drug eras was during the hippie movement within the 1960's in which people would associate bright clothing, peace and love and drugs such as LSD and marijuana. At this time, this movement group were looked at as "societies dropouts" which is parallel to today's outlook on this topic.

Researching multiple newspapers and magazines, it is apparent that newspaper articles discussion of drugs seems to focus on only mentioning negative information to the audience instead of educating and informing. I am aiming to take inspiration and similar stylistics to Dazed and Confused magazine, which mainly focuses on British youth culture.