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

Johnson, Steven

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0713998024 ISBN 13 : 9780713998023

Editeur : Allen Lane, 2005

Synopsis

Popular culture is often seen as nothing more than the production of endless entertainment - video games, computer games, hand-held games, movies and music on computers. It's common currency to talk about the declining standards of today's culture - to say that modern media is dumbing us down. In this complex and tautly written book, Steven Johnson presents a radical alternative: mass culture is making us smarter by consistently demanding more of our brains. So whether you watch The Sopranos or Survivor, turn on and tune in.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Steven Johnson is the author of the US bestseller Mind Wide Open. His previous book, Emergence, was shortlisted for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. Johnson's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's and The Guardian, as well as on the op-ed pages of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He also writes for Discover magazine and Wired.com, and was co-founder of the award-winning websites FEED and Plastic.com. He teaches at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program, and has degrees in Semiotics and English Literature from Brown and Columbia Universities.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Allen Lane
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0713998024
• ISBN 13: 9780713998023
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible