by Steven Johnson · Riverhead Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781594481949
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«Everything Bad is Good for You» is Steven Johnson's cultural criticism essay, published by Riverhead Books in hardcover (272 pages, in English).
Steven Johnson argues that current popular culture, far from stupefying, has become more sophisticated and demands more from our minds. Drawing on neuroscience, economics, and media theory, he analyzes TV series, video games, and films to argue that mass entertainment poses cognitive challenges that can make us smarter.
The edition is from 2006 and includes an epilogue by the author. The book was a bestseller in the United States.
For those interested in popular culture, television, video games, and cognitive psychology, and for anyone wanting a reasoned defense of modern entertainment.
Steven Glenn Johnson is an American applied mathematician and physicist known for being a co-creator of the FFTW library for software-based fast Fourier transforms and for his work on photonic crystals. He is professor of Applied Mathematics and Physics at MIT where he leads a group on Nanostructures and Computation.
