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

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext The author puts forward a radical alternative to the endless complaints about reality TV, throwaway movies and violent video games. In this title, 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. Zusammenfassung The author puts forward a radical alternative to the endless complaints about reality TV, throwaway movies and violent video games. In this title, 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.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Johnson, Johnson Steven
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.04.2006
• EAN: 9780141018683
• ISBN: 978-0-14-101868-3
• No. of pages: 238
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Pocketbooks; ALLEN LANE; Penguin Pocketbooks
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture