Present-day comics meet children's needs for identification objects more effectively than the literature available to the past generation¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r? · q2
Currency · newest study 1953 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? In regard to providing identification objects, present-day comics meet the developmental needs of today's children more effectively than did the literature available to the past generation. → Audio-Visual Communication Review 1953

Evidence¶

Audio-Visual Communication Review 1953¶

Audio-Visual Communication Review. (1953). Audio-Visual Communication Review, p. 316 (digest of Spiegelman, Terwilliger & Fearing, The Journal of Social Psychology, 37:189-203, May 1953; and Wolf & Fiske, The Children Talk about Comics, in Communications Research 1948-1949, Harper and Brothers, 1948). https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02713301

q2 · i? · qualitative · r?

Finding from the interview study of 104 stratified children about their comic book reading; the digest reports this comparative judgment about identification objects without a printed statistic.

"present-day comics meet the developmental needs of today's children for identification ob-jects more effectively than did the literature available to the past generation."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Age and Developmental Stage — moderator: an instructional effect differs with it

Related Claims¶

• Children need different kinds of comics at different developmental stages, from animal comics for early projective needs to invincible heroes for ego-inflation — related
• The normal child is a moderate reader who uses comics as a means of (digest text breaks off) — related