Bitch Magazine

I am really glad that we were able to read Bitch magazine, because the articles helped clarify what the differences between and invoked audience and an addressed audience is. I think that our discussion yesterday made me see that the two forms of audience need to work together. I think by reading this it helped see the issues that Ede and Lunsford were talking about in their article. When looking at Bitch magazine we want to understand the addressed audience first, those are the people that will buy this magazine. With this magazine it's addressed audience was independent women who have opinions and want to voice them. On the other hand we have to look at invoked audience, which is an audience that the writer imagines themselves writing for. In Bitch magazine the writers write about certain topics because they know their audience already and that is the independent woman. So the writers offer feelings that in their article that their reader should share. However, there use of language does not exclude anyone from reading this magazine, so they might be able to pull some more readers in . Both invoked and addressed audience need to work together because even though the text may be geared toward one type of audience, t may invoke a different type of audience as well. For example, Bitch magazine's addressed audience is independent women, but it's invoked audience is broader, since men are reading it also.