ROLES OF CHILDREN TELEVISION PROGRAM AND PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS

Abstract

The research “Roles of Children Television Programs and Public Conscious ness” had objectives to analyze the content of television programs which relating to the public consciousness of children, to study roles of children television programs in public consciousness, to study opinions of the children on promotion of public conscious ness for children television programs. The research was the qualitative research in cluding in-depth interview of the producers, textual analysis of the television programs and focus group of the children.

The results of the research were that most of children television programs relating to the public consciousness promoted public consciousness in two issues which were supporting the benefit of the public focusing on cooperation, forgiving and helping the weak people without gaining benefit.

Roles of children television programs in public consciousness, the producers for the programs should focus on the roles of programs in teaching life skills for the children. Moreover, the public consciousness should be presented with cartoons and showing the children activities as social models.

For the opinions of children on public consciousness in children showed the public consciousness in terms of helping the others and sharing knowledge with others. The adolescents thought that most of children television programs taught the children to live with others, helping each other and solving the problems in the families. They had different point of views on public consciousness depending on their experiences.