Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media, Volume 1 [e-book]

Why people prefer to create zines over other texts:

• resistant to generalization
• independent from professional presses and commercial publishers
• "the earliest zine producers were typically white, middle-class males hwoever an increasing number of girls and people of color have become involved in zine making since the late 1980s" politics.. riot grrl.
• "Because paper and writing implements are inexpensive as well as easy to access, manipulate, and transport, zines remain the media texts most easily and cheapily produced by young people. In turn, because zine production requires minimal literacy and zine makers champion amateur aesthetics, zines are an attractive alternative medium for those with minimum education and publishing skills." The production costs are much more accessible and affordable

Zine Genres:

• fanzines (communities involved in a specific cultural medium or genre)
• subculture zines
• topic/issues
• literary zines (poems, short stories...)
• comics
• perzines (personal zines reflecting one person's own experiences.)