Barney Vs Sesame Street

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Sesame Street or Barney? Christopher Boettcher Conlyn Glover Shell Jensen Kyle Mussche COMM 310 Communication Department California State University Channel Islands. Barney VS Sesame Street The topic of child entertainment has become very heated during the last few years. Arguments weather SpongeBob kills brain cells or Dora the Explorer hinders English acquisition among children are serious questions parents are asking. This is not a recent dilemma; these types of inquiries and comparisons have been taking place for many years. Networks have even found that their shows compete against one another the audience. Which is exactly why for this research project our group has decided to explore the relationship between two popular children television shows of our era and their influence on their young viewers. The specific research question we settled on was, children born between the years 1988 to 1994 related closer to either Sesame Street or Barney when growing up, due to the household in which they were raised. Sesame Street is a children’s show divided into segments with different muppets who would teach children various lessons as they visited new friends and went on many adventures through their neighborhood. Barney on the other hand was a continuous half hour story line, which mostly took place inside or in your own backyard, with a calmer and quieter setting. Sesame Street focused on teaching and introducing you to topics such as jobs and occupations of people in your community while Barney focused more on showing children the love of family atmosphere and being happy in your own home. We realize there were other influential shows that targeted this age group, but we chose to focus on these shows with the variables listed within our survey. We wanted to explore the relationship between these two styles of children shows and see if they had a

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