When the main character of a kids TV show can both listen and respond to viewers by using advances in artificial intelligence, youngsters learn more from the program. That’s what my colleagues and I ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...

For decades, animated children's stories included negative stereotypes of Indigenous people. There was Disney's Pocahontas, which presented the daughter of a Powhatan chief in a romantic love story ...

As fictional horror characters keep ascending to viral internet fame among children, a subset of widely-followed YouTube channels have been producing cartoons depicting these figures in even more ...

Children's cartoons, often seen as innocent films about royalty and furry animals, are "rife with on-screen death and murder," a new study finds. The significant characters in kids' animated films are ...

Children's cartoons, often seen as innocent films about royalty and furry animals, are "rife with on-screen death and murder," a new study finds. The significant characters in kids' animated films are ...

Whether you’re a parent of a trans kid or just a trans person who likes queer media, children’s TV shows with transgender characters can be hard to come by. Most children’s shows don’t have explicitly ...

Preschoolers watching children's television programs are viewing negative stereotypes of older people that could bias youth attitudes toward the elderly, according to a Brigham Young University study ...

YouTube videos using child-oriented search terms are evading the company's attempts to control them. In one cartoon, a woman with a Minnie Mouse head tumbles down an escalator before becoming trapped ...