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Discuss the centrality of gender relations to the market positioning of different types of media
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Just as physicists want to ponder the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the study of physics, we wonder why age/sex plays should play such a central role in all types of media usage. The gender division obvious reflects the gap that continues to exist; it is by no means clear where the future lies, because this gap is due partially to the continuation of historical inequities and also partially due to different needs that may be based on biological differences (e.g. magazines that deal with motherhood). The age division reflects the fact that the different generations have different experiences as well as different needs and interests. The truism of 'different generations have different experiences as well as different needs and interests' can be turned on its head to refer to media researchers, for whom the explanation of media usage behavior is a central issue. The traditional pivoting around age/sex has exhausted...
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