Identidad y características de los familiares y amigos catódicos de los niños españoles

Abstract

Several studies have shown television's capacity for social learning and the special influence that characters have over the identity configuration of younger viewers. At the same time, the audience data indicate that since the television beginnings, children have been interested in adult or family programmes, to which they dedicate the same or more attention than to children programming. In this article, we offer the results of a content analysis in which we have analysed main and secondary protagonists in the national series with the best children audience results. The analysis is focused on sociodemographic and psycho-social characteristics of the actors.