Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter
Steven Johnson reconsiders the familiar belief that popular culture is making society less intelligent. Everything Bad is Good for You presents a provocative cultural argument: today’s entertainment may be fostering more complex thinking and sharpening the mental abilities of its audience.
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Everything Bad is Good for You examines the provocative claim that contemporary popular culture may be improving, rather than diminishing, our mental abilities.
Steven Johnson questions familiar assumptions about the effects of entertainment and considers how modern media can shape the way people think.
The book offers a cultural analysis of the relationship between popular entertainment, intelligence, and everyday intellectual life.
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