He evaluation of the effects of animated cartoons telecasted on turkish televisions to primary school students' socialization process

The purpose of this work is analyzing the effects of animated cartoons to the socialization process of primary schools' students (4th, 5th and 6th grade) in Turkey. "Screening Model" which is one of the descriptive research methods was applied for the thesis. The research sample of the work which consists of the evaluation of the data gathered by the application of the developod scale was determined with "simple random sampling" type of "cluster sampling method". The application of the study is carried out among fourth, fifth and sixth grade students of 18 randomly selected elementary schools situated in 9 central districts of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality. During the the scale development process, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) carried out with 572 students and ConfirmatoryFactor Analysis (CFA) carried out with 350 students.To obtain the data within the framework of the research the scale was applied with 150 students. By the evaluation of the variables it is decided to use t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), Kruskal-Wallis H test and Mann-Whitney U tests.In the study, between the hours of animation viewing there were no significant differences in terms of socialization scale score (p>0.05). There were no significant difference between children's grade levels groups in terms of the scale score (p> 0.05). viThere was a significant difference between children's families' income groups in terms of the scale score (p<0.05). In the context of the work carried out on animation films' technical specifications; 136 students were questioned with open ended questions . In the phase of interpretation of the data gathered in relation to the sub-problems of the research frequency (f) and percentage (%) values were calculated. As a result of the application it was seen that the choosing process of the cartoons watched by elementary school students is affected with their graphic design related technical specialities. As a result of the research it is concluded that the animated cartoons on TV have a partial effect on elementary school students' socialization process. Keywords: Animation, animated cartoon, mass media, television, socialization, graphics trainin