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An analytical argument for the intellectual benefits of popular elements from modern pop culture, including video games and reality TV programs, explains how today's electronic games and television shows have contributed to higher IQ scores and may be helping people to develop improve cognitive abilities.
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'We need never feel guilty about that 96-hour Grand Theft Auto session again’ -- Arena
'Wonderfully entertaining’ -- Malcolm Gladwell
Essential and rather brilliant. -- New Statesman
The championing of popular culture is most welcome ... a vital, lucid exploration of the contemporary mediascape. -- Time Out Book of the Week
This book is a satisfying experience. -- New Statesman
‘A guru for Generation Xbox’ -- Financial Times
‘A must-read’ -- Mark Thompson, head of the BBC
‘Thought-provoking ... very persuasive’ -- Sunday Times
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'Wonderfully entertaining’ -- Malcolm Gladwell
Essential and rather brilliant. -- New Statesman
The championing of popular culture is most welcome ... a vital, lucid exploration of the contemporary mediascape. -- Time Out Book of the Week
This book is a satisfying experience. -- New Statesman
‘A guru for Generation Xbox’ -- Financial Times
‘A must-read’ -- Mark Thompson, head of the BBC
‘Thought-provoking ... very persuasive’ -- Sunday Times
Steven Johnson is the author of the national bestsellers Everything Bad Is Good for You and Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life, as well as Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software and Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate.
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- PublisherRiverhead Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1573223077
- ISBN 13 9781573223072
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages238
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 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. Seller Inventory # 002110
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