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  Everything Bad is Good for You: How Popular Culture is Making Us Smarter (Allen Lane) (Paperback) By (author) Steven Johnson

  

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  Short Description for Everything Bad is Good for YouPutting forward an alternative to the endless complaints about reality TV, throwaway movies and violent video games, this book shows that mass culture is actually more sophisticated and challenging than ever before.
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Published: 01 March 2010
  • Format: Paperback 256 pages
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  • Categories: Popular Culture
  • ISBN 13: 9780141018683 ISBN 10: 0141018682
  • Sales rank: 59,837

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• Tune in, turn on and get smarter. "The Simpsons", "Desperate Housewives", "The Apprentice", "The Sopranos", "Grand Theft Auto": We're constantly being told that popular culture is just mindless entertainment. But, as Steven Johnson shows, it's actually making us more intelligent. Here he puts forward a radical alternative to the endless complaints about reality TV, throwaway movies 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, it becomes clear that it's not dumbing us down but smartening us up.