ARTICLE

CARTOONS SOURCE OF CONSTRUCTION OR DESTRUCTION

12 Pages : 135-145

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gmcr.2024(IX-I).12      10.31703/gmcr.2024(IX-I).12      Published : Mar 2024

Cartoons: Source of Construction or Destruction?

    The current study deals with the ramifications of cartoons on children's behavior, burgeoning, personality development, and learning processes. The focus was on the role of cartoons in the development of constructive or destructive cognition and behavioral changes. The study was conducted in Multan- a developing city in Pakistan- by using a mixed approach. Data has been analyzed in an explanatory style. A sample of 105 respondents including children from ages 5-16 years and their mothers were selected through purposive sampling. Data was collected by observation and structured interviews as well as probing and prompting techniques. Study reveals that boys were much affected by cartoons having violent and technological stuff while girls led in understanding themes. On one side they enhance Cognition, knowledge, thinking, and criticizing capability and social behavior; on the other, it affect their behavior, creativity, attention disorder, sensitivity, exhilaration preference, confidence, and choices of leisure time activity.

    Cartoons, Cognition, Behavior, Construction, Destruction, Gender, Dream World
    (1) Altaf Ghani
    Assistant Professor, Institute of Social and Cultural Studies, Bahuddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Dur e Sadaf
    Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Social and Cultural Studies, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Shagufta Hamid Ali
    Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan.

Cite this article

    CHICAGO : Ghani, Altaf, Dur e Sadaf, and Shagufta Hamid Ali. 2024. "Cartoons: Source of Construction or Destruction?." Global Mass Communication Review, IX (I): 135-145 doi: 10.31703/gmcr.2024(IX-I).12
    HARVARD : GHANI, A., SADAF, D. E. & ALI, S. H. 2024. Cartoons: Source of Construction or Destruction?. Global Mass Communication Review, IX, 135-145.
    MHRA : Ghani, Altaf, Dur e Sadaf, and Shagufta Hamid Ali. 2024. "Cartoons: Source of Construction or Destruction?." Global Mass Communication Review, IX: 135-145
    MLA : Ghani, Altaf, Dur e Sadaf, and Shagufta Hamid Ali. "Cartoons: Source of Construction or Destruction?." Global Mass Communication Review, IX.I (2024): 135-145 Print.
    OXFORD : Ghani, Altaf, Sadaf, Dur e, and Ali, Shagufta Hamid (2024), "Cartoons: Source of Construction or Destruction?", Global Mass Communication Review, IX (I), 135-145
    TURABIAN : Ghani, Altaf, Dur e Sadaf, and Shagufta Hamid Ali. "Cartoons: Source of Construction or Destruction?." Global Mass Communication Review IX, no. I (2024): 135-145. https://doi.org/10.31703/gmcr.2024(IX-I).12