Recently, a trend in facebook intensified wherein profile pictures were changed to cartoon characters to support violence against children. But what if these cartoons are the ones that provoke violence among children? will they serve the purpose of the FB campaign?
High levels of violence in cartoons can make children more aggressive, researchers claimed .They found that animated shows aimed at youngsters often have more brutality than programmes broadcast for general audiences.Children copied and identified with fantasy characters just as much as they would with screen actors.The study also found that youngsters tended to mimic the negative behaviour they saw on TV such as rumour-spreading, gossiping and eye-rolling.
They recorded 26 acts of aggression an hour compared with just five in shows aimed at general audiences and nine in programmes deemed unsuitable for under-14s.'Results indicated that there are higher levels of physical aggression in children's programmes than in programmes for general audiences,' the study said.
It added that the TV industry distinguished between animated violence and non-animated violence and appeared to rate the former as less harmful.
'There is ample evidence that animated, sanitised and fantasy violence has an effect on children,' the study's authors said. 'Research on the effects of violent video games, which are all animated, indicates that they have the same effects on children's aggressive thoughts, feelings and behaviours that violent TV shows have demonstrated. In fact, even cartoonish children's games increase aggression. Labelling certain types of media violence as "fantasy" violence is misleading and may actually serve to increase children's access to harmful violent content by reducing parental concern.'
The study, by academics at Iowa State University and published in the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, also found that children copied at school the verbal aggression they had seen on TV. It said: 'In addition, the effects of televised physical aggression were extensive, such that exposure to televised physical aggression was associated with a variety of negative behaviours .' This anti-social behaviour included verbal and physical aggression and excluding others from friendship groups.
Gradually, they begin to act and reciprocate as the cartoons on the television would. They begin to perceive the real world as the cartoon character’s world and enact accordingly. The stunts done are imagined to be real and performed by kids in real life. The underlined fact here is not the kid’s ignorance in differentiating between the real and the artificial but his perception of the real. At an age, when personalities, choices, tastes begin to get developed in kids, the cartoons have a deep effect on them
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1159766/Cartoon-violence-makes-children-aggressive.html#ixzz17PTN5adj
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_in_cartoons
http://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2010/12/effect-of-cartoon-on-children/
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