In the past, comics were a healthy entertainment for children, but now the content and images of comics circulating online are extremely complicated, making it impossible for parents and authorities to fully manage them.
Especially over the years, comics have gradually begun to shift to serve adult readers…, causing the content and images of comics to no longer be a pure world that satisfies imagination and magical dreams. children’s period with violent scenes and content mixed with adult love and sex themes.
When information technology had not yet exploded, comics were only limited to books translated from abroad under strict control by publishers and functional management agencies, but now comics are mainly published. appear on websites, e-books… without control, causing images and content not to be edited or processed. This is easily seen when accessing comic websites that are abundant on the internet, what catches the viewer’s eye are stories with dense images of violence, love, sex… as a standard. press, a tool to attract readers. Accompanying those inappropriate images are words that are “innocuous” and not even consistent with good customs and traditions.
Handbook: Be careful with online comics – Photo 1.
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The main readers of comics today are still mainly students and teenagers, with ages that have complex physiological and psychological development as well as many changes and fluctuations in perception of the surrounding world, so when reading When comics contain unhealthy words and images, children will easily be led to cognitive distortions, creating an unhealthy lifestyle.
Previously, comics were only in book form, so parents could easily recognize them so they could prevent their children from accessing them, and managers could easily hold the publishing unit responsible; Now, comics appear in the form of websites… sloppily translated and posted online.
Reading stories in general and reading comics in particular is a legitimate need for children, but at their age they are not brave enough to filter out the bad content that is rampant in the stories, which will easily lead them to deviate from their thinking. upon reception. Therefore, first of all, to protect their children from the negative effects of online comics, parents must regularly check and choose appropriate stories. In particular, functional agencies need to take measures to manage and handle websites that provide comics that violate regulations and do not conform to good customs and traditions in order to make the reading environment healthy.