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Everything bad is good for you how today's popular culture is actually making us smarter

Discusses the intellectual benefits of elements from modern popular culture, including video games and reality TV programs.

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  • "Everything bad is good for you"@ja
  • "Popular culture is actually making us smarter"
  • "大众文化让我们变得更聪明"
  • "Da zhong wen hua rang wo men bian de geng cong ming"

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  • "The Simpsons, Desperate Housewives, The Apprentice, The Sopranos, Grand Theft Auto: We're constantly being told that popular culture is just mindless entertainment. But, as Steven Johnson shows, it's actually making us more intelligent. Here he puts forward a radical alternative to the endless complaints about reality TV, throwaway movies and violent video games. He shows that mass culture is actually more sophisticated and challenging than ever before. When we focus on what our minds have to do to process its complex, multilayered messages, it becomes clear that it's not dumbing us down--but smartening us up."
  • "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 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, the author contends 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 nor should it aspire to be. In fact, video games -- from Tetris to the Sims to Grand Theft Auto -- have been shown develop cognitive abilities that can't be learned from books, as well as to raise IQ scores. Likewise, successful television, when examined closely and taken seriously, reveals surprising narrative sophistication and intellectual demands. This book is a hopeful and spirited account of contemporary culture. The author demonstrates that our culture is not declining but changing in exciting and stimulating ways we'd do well to understand."
  • "Discusses the intellectual benefits of elements from modern popular culture, including video games and reality TV programs."@en
  • "Discusses the intellectual benefits of elements from modern popular culture, including video games and reality TV programs."
  • "Popular culture is often described as nothing more than the production of endless entertainment. But, here, Steven Johnson puts forward a radical alternative argument: one that argues for popular culture and one which suggests that, over the past fifty years, popular culture has grown more complex and more intellectually challenging."
  • "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, the author 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 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. This book is a hopeful and spirited account of contemporary culture. The author demonstrates that our culture is not declining but changing-in exciting and stimulating ways we'd do well to understand. The glow of the video game or television screen will never be regarded the same way again."
  • "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, the author 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 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. This book is a hopeful and spirited account of contemporary culture. The author demonstrates that our culture is not declining but changing-in exciting and stimulating ways we'd do well to understand. The glow of the video game or television screen will never be regarded the same way again."@en
  • "Forget everything you've ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly researched, and surprisingly convincing big idea book, Steven Johnson draws from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economics, and media theory to argue that the pop culture we soak in every day'from Lord of the Rings to Grand Theft Auto to The Simpsons'has been growing more sophisticated with each passing year, and, far from rotting our brains, is actually posing new cognitive challenges that are actually making our minds measurably sharper. After reading Everything Bad is Good for You, you will never regard the glow of the video game or television screen the same way again. With a new afterword by the author. Steven Johnson's newest book, Future Perfect, is now available from Riverhead Books."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"

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  • "Everything bad is good for you how today's popular culture is actually making us smarter"@en
  • "Everything bad is good for you : how popular culture is actually making us smarter"@en
  • "坏事变好事 : 大众文化让我们变得更聪明 = Everything bad is good for you"
  • "ダメなものは、タメになる : テレビやゲームは頭を良くしている"
  • "Huai shi bian hao shi : da zhong wen hua rang wo men bian de geng cong ming = Everything bad is good for you"
  • "Si és dolent t'ho recomano : com la cultura de masses ens fa més intel·ligents"@ca
  • "Cultura basura, cerebros privilegiados : [Everything bad is good for you]"
  • "Cultura basura, cerebros privilegiados"
  • "Cultura basura, cerebros privilegiados"@es
  • "Tout ce qui est mauvais est bon pour vous pourquoi les séries télé et les jeux vidéos rendent intelligent"
  • "Everything bad is good for you : how's today's popular culture is actually making us smarter"
  • "Everything bad is good for you : how today's popular culture is actually making us smarter"
  • "Everything bad is good for you : how today's popular culture is actually making us smarter"@en
  • "Damena mono wa tame ni naru : Terebi ya gēmu wa atama o yokushiteiru"@ja
  • "Everything bad is good for you how popular culture is making us smarter"
  • "Ce qui est mauvais est bon pour vous : pourquoi les séries télés et les jeux vidéo rendent intelligent"
  • "Everything bad is good for you : why popular culture is actually making us smarter"@en
  • "Everything bad is good for you : how popular culture is making us smarter"@en
  • "Everything bad is good for you : how popular culture is making us smarter"
  • "Alle slechte dingen zijn goed voor je : waarom de populaire cultuur ons slimmer maakt"
  • "Everything bad is good for you"@en
  • "Everything bad is good for you"
  • "Pabo sangja ŭi yŏksŭp"
  • "Si és dolent t'ho recomano com la cultura de masses ens fa més intel·ligents"
  • "Neue Intelligenz : warum wir durch Computerspiele und TV klüger werden"
  • "Tout ce qui est mauvais est bon pour vous : pourquoi les séries télé et les jeux vidéo rendent intelligent"
  • "Dame na mono wa dame ni naru : terebi ya gēmu wa atama o yoku shite iru = Everything bad is good for you"
  • "바보상자의역습"

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