The normal child is a moderate reader who uses comics as a means of [digest text breaks off]¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 1953 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 1958: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The normal child is characterized as a moderate reader who uses comics as a means of an unstated further purpose, the digest text being truncated at this point. → 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 · r1

Result (c) of the interview study of 104 stratified children on comic book reading; the supplied digest text ends mid-sentence, so the stated purpose of comics use is not available.

"The normal child is a "moderate reader" who uses comics as a means of"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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