Bibliographic Information:
Publisher: Hearst Communications
First Release Date: September 1944
Executive Director: Kristin Koch
Summary: Seventeen Magazine is a magazine targeted towards teenage girls as well as young adults. This magazine covers a wide variety of topic which appeal to young women such as: tips on love, exercises, articles that feature other young girls, fashion, blogs, celebrity entertainment, horoscopes, beauty, and more. Also they have quizzes available on various topics to assess your personality. The articles can be described as fun, light hearted, and encouraging.
Critical Evaluation: Seventeen magazine is a good PG magazine for teenage girls to read. The content could be considered mature since there are some articles that do very lightly refer to sexual content or experiences. I always appreciated seeing the workouts because it would inspire me to try to workout. The articles featuring real life stories about other girls around the same age were also very interesting. Even though of course i never met any of the girls from the articles, I felt this instant comradery with them just knowing that they have some of the very same thoughts and feelings that i do. Seventeen also did a good job representing all ethnicities of the girls in their magazine. All the makeup ads were never really appealing just because i knew my parents weren’t buying me all of that. However, I did enjoy seeing all the different latest styles concerning clothes.
Reader’s Annotation: N/a
Executive Director Information: Kristin Koch is a well known name in the writing industry. She is not only a multi platform writer and editor, but she is also a content and digital strategist. Her specialties include covering fashion, beauty, design, and lifestyle as well as special editorial projects, and digital brand consulting. Closetful of Clothes is a style website that Kristin founded herself.
She is currently Seventeen.com’s Executive Site Editor, in addition to being the Executive Director of the magazine. As Executive Site Editor, she has many tasks including: overseeing social platforms, the magazine’s digital content, and multi platform projects. During her time working on Seventeen.com, Kristin has increased the traffic in visitors of the sight from 2.7 million, to now 11 million visitors due to her social media presence and usage of Kik and Periscope. Some of the other big names that she has edited for include: Vanity Fair, Glamour, The Nest and more.
Genre: Magazine for teen girls and young adults
Curriculum Ties: N/a
Book Talk Ideas: N/a
Interest Age: 13 and up
Challenge & Defense Preparation:
Challenge Issues: Mature content
Why Included: I absolutely loved Seventeen magazine as a teenager. It was fun reading all the different articles about girls going to college, reading the fake horoscopes ( my crush never talked to me on the day Seventeen predicted), and reading the real life stories of other teen girls just like me. While the content can be considered mature, it is most likely safe to say that a lot of the subjects covered in Seventeen magazine either the teens have already heard about it, read about it, seen something about it on TV, or has a friend or family member who has experienced whatever it is. So there’s really no harm in parents letting their teen girls read this magazine. I’d definitely recommend it.
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