Creative Critical Reflection: Technology Integration

This product was created and researched entirely online, including the use of Blogger to outline my process, as well as entirely online research into other magazines and products that allowed me to discover further how companies like Conde Nast create such an immense and diverse amount of products that have and will continue to develop the magazine industry. My product is in part based off of the clever and clearly successful business plan and distribution model created by Conde Nast, especially involving their use of online websites and social media to further advertise and showcase their products to consumers. By using a new, up to date, and model that appeals to younger consumers, online magazine developments have been hugely successful regarding the recent changes in technological integration into the magazine industry. Without this new turn of events, the print magazine industry would be failing, but with the integration of online magazine production and distribution, the industry was able to continue selling print copies for nostalgic reasons, and for profitable reasons, yet by using newly developed interfaces to appeal to a broader audience was a necessary business decision that saved the magazine industry, just like it saved the newspaper industry, as we learned by watching the New York Times Page One documentary. I have also used technology in creating the physical pages of my magazine. The cover, two-page article, and table of contents were all created digitally. Technology was an integral part in my entire magazine project, with the research, creation, and recording of my process.