A Content Analysis
Abstract
Analysis of the children’s program Codename: Kids Next Door this paper will examine the average percentage of violence in this popular children’s program. The objective of this study was to analyze how many violent acts were present in the first season of the show and try to analyze exactly the amount of demonstrated acts are being portrayed. Methods: This study examined the first season of the program to record: perpetrator, victim, what type of violent act was presented, what the effects of the act resulted in, and if any structural damage resulted. Results: Main findings indicated that …show more content…
Figure 2 gives more detail to the presenting issue of this program and how the effects of each violent act are portrayed. This is important to notice for the fact that the victims impact that most victims experienced a large number of about two-thirds of the time they would fall to the ground from the act, while one third they would maintain standing without falling to the ground even though many characters never showed a lot of pain, blood, or other resulting injury besides a few times of being showing some scrapes on their face. Though the characters never really experienced real life pain presented in the cartoon program this is something that may lead viewers to believe that it would be ok to hurt someone and they would not get too injured even though that is not the …show more content…
While the work does not have an exhaustive measure of resulting variables or work in attempting to record each violent act effectively with the given methods this study is one that has results that can be common for that of which this program offers. The findings that were shown does fit the presented information of Wilson et al (2002) which studied that there were about 14 incidents of violence in one hour program and 1 in every 4 minutes. The findings from this study also showed that if research was to average out the amount of total recorded incidents to the amount of episodes studied it would be about 6 which were analyzed. So this does give a larger meaning that cartoon programs have high amounts of violent programs in their shows though this is often in the use of fictional violence in which characters are never seriously injured or hurt which can leave the social effects of real life violence needing to be continued to analyzed with aggression and that context that children understand the perceived shows are fictional. This is something that no research has found if the perception of these shows have any effect on children’s behaviors with the high exposures of violence and what is reality or