Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
by Johnson, Steven
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- 1573223077
- ISBN 13
- 9781573223072
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U.S.A.: Riverhead Hardcover, 2005. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. From the author of the New York Times bestseller Mind Wide Open comes a groundbreaking assessment of popular culture as it's never been considered before: through the lens of intelligence. The $10 billion video gaming industry is now the second-largest segment of the entertainment industry in the United States, outstripping film and far surpassing books. Reality television shows featuring silicone-stuffed CEO wannabes and bug-eating adrenaline junkies dominate the ratings. But prominent social and cultural critic Steven Johnson argues that our popular culture has never been smarter. Drawing from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economics, and literary theory, Johnson argues that the junk culture we're so eager to dismiss is in fact making us more intelligent. A video game will never be a book, Johnson acknowledges, nor should it aspire to be-and, in fact, video games, from Tetris to The Sims to Grand Theft Auto, have been shown to raise IQ scores and develop cognitive abilities that can't be learned from books. Likewise, successful television, when examined closely and taken seriously, reveals surprising narrative sophistication and intellectual demands. Startling, provocative, and endlessly engaging, Everything Bad Is Good for You is a hopeful and spirited account of contemporary culture. Elegantly and convincingly, Johnson demonstrates that our culture is not declining but changing-in exciting and stimulating ways we'd do well to understand. You will never regard the glow of the video game or television screen the same way again.
Synopsis
Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter is a book by Steven Berlin Johnson. In the book, Johnson claims that popular culture – and in particular television shows and video games – has grown more complex and demanding over time and is making us smarter.
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- Title
- Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
- Author
- Johnson, Steven
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 5th or later Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1573223077
- ISBN 13
- 9781573223072
- Publisher
- Riverhead Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 256
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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