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A Study on Comics Literacy of Elementary Children

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In the media-saturated society, media literacy already became a significant issue in the society.

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According to lots of researches and media projects, comic books already became a part of children life. Compared to other media attributes, comic books have unique attributes of convenience and privacy.

Its impact on children cannot be ignored anymore. There are two main purposes of the project. (1) What is the examining index of comics literacy?

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(2) What are the relationships between different demographic variables and the examining index of comics literacy? Based on literature review and interviewing data, the study found that the abilities to chose comics books, to comprehend comics content, to recognize the comics quality and to avoid the comics impact could be the index of comics literacy. Besides, according to the gender variable, female children got higher scores in the abilities of choosing, recognizing and avoiding impact.

Male children only got high score in comprehending comics. From the whole index result, the best ability of comic literacy on elementary children was choosing comics (Mean=3.14). The ability of recognizing the comics quality was second (Mean=2.98) and comprehending comics content was third (Mean=2.38).

The last ability of comics literacy was avoiding the comics impact (Mean=1.74). l

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