Everything Bad is Good for You - How Popular Culture Is Making Us Smarter

Steven Johnson

Penguin Books
Broché
Paru le : 01/01/2005

The Simpsons, Desperate Housewives, The Apprentice, The Sopranos, Grand Theft Auto: we're constantly being told that popular culture is just mindless entertainment....

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But, as Steven Johnson shows, it's actually making us more intelligent. Everything Bad is Good for You, one of the most talked about books of the year, puts forward a radical alternative to the endless complaints about reality TV, throwaway 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, is become clear that it's not dumbing is down -but smartening us up.

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Date de parution : 01/01/05
Editeur : Penguin Books
Collection : Read More
ISBN : 0-14-101868-2
EAN : 9780141018683
Présentation : Broché
Nb. de pages : 238 pages
Poids : 0,195 Kg
Dimensions : 13,0 cm × 19,5 cm × 1,5 cm

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Biographie de Steven Johnson

Steven Johnson is the author of the US bestseller Mind Wide Open. His previous book, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and software, was named as one of the best voices of 2001 by Esquire, The Village Voice, Amazon.com and Discover magazine. It was named as a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. Johnson is also the author of the 1997 book Interface culture. Johnson's writing bas appeared in the New Yorker, Nation, Harper's and the Guardian, as well as the op-ed pages of The New York Times and the Wall Street journal. He writes the monthly `Emerging Technology' column for Discover magazine, and is a Contributing editor to Wired. The co-founder of the award-winning websids or ED and Plastic.com, Johnson teaches at New York University's interactive Telecommunications Program, and has degrees in Semiotics and English Literature from Brown and Columbia Universities. He lives in New York City with his wife and two sons. Steven Johnson also hosts a web log at www.stevenberlinjohnson. com.

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