Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter Hard cover - 2005 - 1st Edition
by Steven Johnson
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
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.
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- Title Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
- Author Steven Johnson
- Binding Hard Cover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 238
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, New York
- Date 2005
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0076860
- ISBN 9781573223072 / 1573223077
- Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.36 x 5.82 x 0.91 in (21.23 x 14.78 x 2.31 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005042769
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.097