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  Title

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

  Author

  Johnson, Steven, 1968-  

  Publisher:

  Riverhead Books,

  Pub date:

  2006.

  Pages:

  xvi, 254 p. :

  ISBN:

  1594481946

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    HM621 .J64 2006	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  1594481946

  ISBN:

  9781594481949

  029:

  YDXCP 2378323

  Personal Author:

  Johnson, Steven, 1968-

  Title:

  Everything bad is good for you : how today's popular culture is actually making us smarter / Steven Johnson ; [with a new afterword by the author].

  Edition:

  1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.

  Publication info:

  New York: Riverhead Books, 2006.

  Physical description:

  xvi, 254 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

  Contents:

  Introduction : the sleeper curve -- Part one -- Part two -- Notes on further reading -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.

  Summary:

  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.

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  TODD

  Subject term:

  Popular culture.

  Subject term:

  Intellect.

  Subject term:

  Culture populaire.

  Subject term:

  Intelligence.

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