- Title :Study of television animations and children’s behavior (7 to 12 years old)
- Student : Neda Nejati Nasr
- Advisor : –
- University :Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Faculty of Social Sciences and Psychology
- Degree : Master’s
- Major : Journalism
- Defense Date : 2001
Abstract:
This research is an exploration in the field of learning and the realm of child behavior influenced by media messages. The method is content analysis and its tool is a questionnaire. According to this research, children’s programs, rather than increasing children’s awareness of issues, cause changes in habits and behaviors as desired. Also, most children, as a result of watching television cartoons, have turned to electronic entertainment and computer games, and the fewest of them have learned behaviors specific to their age. In other words, cartoons that have been broadcast more in recent years promote and encourage machine-driven living. The contradictory response of children to two questions leads us to this important finding that children inherently like realistic cartoons more and prefer the subjects of this type of cartoons over space and computer subjects and stories, but when they are unintentionally and without their own decision exposed to space and modern cartoons, given the high power of influence and the arousal of curiosity and excitement on the one hand, and the up-to-date nature of these types of subjects in today’s world on the other hand, they are more influenced by such cartoons, which ultimately results in children learning more in this very area despite liking cartoons with space stories less.
