自从西方社会的大众读写能力和技术发展在19世纪中叶同时发生飞跃以来,杂志、已成为几乎所有阶层人们每日生活不可或缺的部分。一个世纪后的今天,许多预言说电视将取代杂志和报纸,但是,杂志经过调适,其印刷数量仍然远远超过大量生产着的电视。现在,已有15亿人通过互联网获得信息和娱乐,所以杂志也再次进行相应调整,无数的杂志不只以印刷和在线的形式出现,它们也有独立的电子版。即使那些仅仅通过印刷出现的杂志,其设计要素也更多地借鉴了新的媒体以使杂志不会落后于时代。不管怎样,杂志在大众文化和对其读者的影响方面自有其特殊的地方。在未来,杂志可能会发生更大的变化以保持其特征和利益。其实,那正是作者、编辑和杂志设计师150年来一直做的事:从任何时代抽出任何一本杂志,你都能发现这本杂志其实是带有时代特 Since the mass literacy and technological development in western societies took a leap forward at the same time in the middle of the 19th century, magazines have become an indispensable part of daily life for almost all classes of people. A century later, many predict that television will replace magazines and newspapers, but magazines are still being adapted to print far more than mass-produced television. Already, 1.5 billion people have access to information and entertainment over the Internet, so magazines are adjusted again, with countless magazines coming out not only in print and online but also in separate electronic versions. Even those magazines that appear only through print have their design elements borrowed more from new media so that magazines do not fall behind the times. In any case, magazines have their own niche in terms of popular culture and its influence on its readers. In the future, there may be more changes to the magazine to preserve its identity and interests. Actually, that’s exactly what authors, editors and magazine designers have been doing for 150 years: From any era, you can find that this magazine is actually a contemporary