The study aimed to determine the degreeof availability of social
skills in children's programs on Syrian television and Cartoon
Network Arabic channels, and to achieve this is to use a list of
appropriate social skills for children kindergarten pr
epared by the
researcher, and included basic skills list, including 24 sub-skill, was
the use of descriptive and analytical approach and showed results of
the analysis in children's programs for the third category that (social
skills on Syria TV) got more duplicates (of social skills on the
Cartoon Network channel in Arabic), while there is available skills
in the children's programs provided for kindergarten children on
two channels, the study concluded that a set of proposals.
The aim of this research is to identify the mothers' point of view
about the role of children's satellite TV programs in emergence of
verbal, physical and symbolic violence. To achieve that, a
questionnaire was applied on a sample of (134) mothers
in
Lattakia. The most important results were as following :
- MBC3 is the most favorite channel for children from the
respondents' point of view.
- most respondents answer that children watch TV during
afternoon for a period of not less than four hours a day.
- children's programs on specialized satellite channels have a high
role in emergence of verbal, physical and symbolic violent as
assessed by mothers.
The research aims at determine the gender and the features of the characters in
children’s programs on CN. We chose an analytical descriptive approach that relies on
content analysis as a research tool.To achieve that a content analysis form was ap
plied on a
sample of (295) programs. Results were as following:
1- The most common subjects in CN programs were the social subjects, and the
fiction subjects.
2- The most common language was the classical Arabic.
3- Most programs on CN were foreign.
4- The most common gender was the male relatively (%53.81).
5- the most common features of male characters were: the fashionable look, happy
and joy, strong and supernatural power.
6 - The most common features of female characterswere: the fashionable look, happy
and joy, the self-confidence.
