Everything Bad is Good for You: How Popular Culture is Making Us Smarter - Couverture souple

Johnson, Steven

 
9780141018683: Everything Bad is Good for You: How Popular Culture is Making Us Smarter
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0141018682 ISBN 13 : 9780141018683
Editeur : Penguin, 2006

Synopsis

We're constantly being told that popular culture is just mindless entertainment - but, as Steven Johnson shows in Everything Bad is Good for You, it's actually making us more intelligent.

Steven Johnson puts forward a radical alternative to the endless complaints about reality TV, throwaway movies and violent video games. He shows that mass culture - The Simpsons, Desperate Housewives, The Apprentice, The Sopranos, Grand Theft Auto - 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.

'As witty as Seinfeld and as wise as ER'
  New Statesman

'Wonderfully entertaining'
  Malcolm Gladwell

'A vital, lucid exploration of the contemporary mediascape'
  Time Out

'A guru for Generation Xbox'
  Financial Times

'A must-read'
  Mark Thompson, former Director-General of the BBC

Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of Mind Wide Open, Where Good Ideas Come From, and Emergence: The Connected Lives Of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software, named as one of the best books of 2001 by Esquire, The Village Voice, Amazon.com, and Discover Magazine, and a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism.

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À propos de l'auteur

Steven Johnson is the US bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From, Future Perfect, The Invention of Air, The Ghost Map, and Everything Bad Is Good for You. He is the founder of a variety of influential websites and has written for Time, Wired, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

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Éditeur
Penguin
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0141018682
ISBN 13 
9780141018683
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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9781594481949: Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1594481946 ISBN 13 :  9781594481949
Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2006
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