Negative representations of young people in local comic books / Roselina Musahar, Nurus Syahidah Tahreb and Norsuraya Mohd Noor

The presence of the many comic books in today’s local media scenario cannot be disputed. As such, comic books do not only serve as a form of entertainment but may be a powerful source of influence to the readers especially the young ones. Being young and immature may cause problems to these young on...

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Main Authors: Musahar, Roselina, Tahreb, Nurus Syahidah, Mohd Noor, Norsuraya
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Pahang 2013
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29600/
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author Musahar, Roselina
Tahreb, Nurus Syahidah
Mohd Noor, Norsuraya
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Tahreb, Nurus Syahidah
Mohd Noor, Norsuraya
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description The presence of the many comic books in today’s local media scenario cannot be disputed. As such, comic books do not only serve as a form of entertainment but may be a powerful source of influence to the readers especially the young ones. Being young and immature may cause problems to these young ones where whatever they read is observed to be true and have impacts on their behaviour and attitudes in real life. Whether young people are being represented in acceptable and desirable ways can be an interesting phenomenon to observe. Thus, this paper discusses the representations of young people as portrayed by the comic book artist in several issues of one of the comic books available in the local market. This study used content analysis method to analyse the comic book strips for the depiction of youngsters by focusing on their attitudes and behaviour. Findings indicate that young people are represented in several different ways that can be influential to the minds of the young ones and the perception of others about them.
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spelling uitm-296002020-10-09T05:40:46Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29600/ Negative representations of young people in local comic books / Roselina Musahar, Nurus Syahidah Tahreb and Norsuraya Mohd Noor gadingss Musahar, Roselina Tahreb, Nurus Syahidah Mohd Noor, Norsuraya Performance. Competence. Academic achievement Higher Education The presence of the many comic books in today’s local media scenario cannot be disputed. As such, comic books do not only serve as a form of entertainment but may be a powerful source of influence to the readers especially the young ones. Being young and immature may cause problems to these young ones where whatever they read is observed to be true and have impacts on their behaviour and attitudes in real life. Whether young people are being represented in acceptable and desirable ways can be an interesting phenomenon to observe. Thus, this paper discusses the representations of young people as portrayed by the comic book artist in several issues of one of the comic books available in the local market. This study used content analysis method to analyse the comic book strips for the depiction of youngsters by focusing on their attitudes and behaviour. Findings indicate that young people are represented in several different ways that can be influential to the minds of the young ones and the perception of others about them. Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Pahang 2013-12 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29600/1/29600.pdf Musahar, Roselina and Tahreb, Nurus Syahidah and Mohd Noor, Norsuraya (2013) Negative representations of young people in local comic books / Roselina Musahar, Nurus Syahidah Tahreb and Norsuraya Mohd Noor. (2013) Gading Journal for the Social Sciences <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Gading_Journal_for_the_Social_Sciences.html>, 17 (02). pp. 41-54. ISSN 2600-7568 https://gadingssuitm.com/
spellingShingle Performance. Competence. Academic achievement
Higher Education
Musahar, Roselina
Tahreb, Nurus Syahidah
Mohd Noor, Norsuraya
Negative representations of young people in local comic books / Roselina Musahar, Nurus Syahidah Tahreb and Norsuraya Mohd Noor
title Negative representations of young people in local comic books / Roselina Musahar, Nurus Syahidah Tahreb and Norsuraya Mohd Noor
title_full Negative representations of young people in local comic books / Roselina Musahar, Nurus Syahidah Tahreb and Norsuraya Mohd Noor
title_fullStr Negative representations of young people in local comic books / Roselina Musahar, Nurus Syahidah Tahreb and Norsuraya Mohd Noor
title_full_unstemmed Negative representations of young people in local comic books / Roselina Musahar, Nurus Syahidah Tahreb and Norsuraya Mohd Noor
title_short Negative representations of young people in local comic books / Roselina Musahar, Nurus Syahidah Tahreb and Norsuraya Mohd Noor
title_sort negative representations of young people in local comic books / roselina musahar, nurus syahidah tahreb and norsuraya mohd noor
topic Performance. Competence. Academic achievement
Higher Education
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29600/
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29600/