Othering

This is the web page for Closer magazine. This page is presenting othering in many ways. Firstly, under the heading for 'Real Life' there is an article about the tsunami in Japan. However, this environmental tragedy is surrounded by stories about how to lose weight on one side and on the other the title states 'We bring you all red carpet gossip'. The article about the Japanese tsunami is presented in such a way to detach the reader, as if it is just a story and not actually real life. Surrounding it by so many adverts and superficial things create the othering of people involved in this tragedy. Secondly, there is another article entitled 'Internet sickos tormented me about son's death' .An article about internet bullying leading to the suicide of one boy, who got bullied on facebook. However on the stream of advertisements down the right hand side of the page there are adverts for following twitter and facebook pages. This case is othering the tragedy of the boy bullied on facebook and other people who have been abused on similar sites.