Child humor in the media:concepts and features

Satir and humor are known to be fundamental elements in the proper design of media messages for children. For media producers of children's programs, achieving successful communication with the child's audience depends on the use of appropriate and understandable language for children. Therefore, using the element of satir and humor as an effective tool to communicate and attract children has a special place in the media. Successful use of humor in children's media productions depends on knowing the child and his/her developmental characteristics, understanding humor and its meaning, and mastering the media and its capacities in creating comic situations. Humor enables the teaching of many educational issues and topics in an indirect form and in an effective and fun language for children, and satisfies their needs for entertainment and happiness, and provides the ground for their development. The present article, in a library method, tries to explain the concept of children's humor by considering the educational goals of humor and its characteristics, while emphasizing the importance of humor for the child, to examine how humor is used in children's programs.