Impact of Cartoon Channels on Children
Published: 2013
Author(s) Name: Manoj Kumar Lodha |
Author(s) Affiliation: Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, HNG University, Patan, Gujarat, India
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Abstract
There is no doubt that television has a great influence on
children from a very early age itself and it will affect
children’s cognitive and social development. The role that
television plays in socializing children is very great.
Television can be educational and beneficial, but their
negative aspect, such as the amount of aggressive and
violent activity it displays daily, is causing grave concern to
parents and educators around the world. Children do not generally become consistent viewers until
they are about 2½ to 3 years old. Even then they do not
watch the set constantly because their span of attention is
very short. So they get easily distracted. Now a day the
working parents are so busy, they don’t have enough time
to spend with their kids. The mother has to do the cooking
and look after the child simultaneously; there may not be
servants also. So she switches on the TV and puts the child
in front of it. Slowly it becomes a habit. After some time the
kid becomes addicted to the television. And the mother
blames the child for regularly watching it.
Keywords: Children, Cartoon channels, Television, Socialisation, Television
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