Watching Tv Makes You Smarter Analysis

Steven Johnson the author of “Watching TV Makes You Smarter”, argues that TV programing has become more cognitively demanding, and therefore believes that both watching TV and playing violent video games are somehow beneficial (278). By stating, that TV programing and reading focus on the same mental faculties such as attention, patience and retention (280) he makes it seem that is acceptable to indulge in such distractions. Ever since the multi-threading was introduced in the 1980 culture has become more cognitively demanding (282) as a result, media companies introduced more characters and complex subject matters (281-282). Increasing the cognitive complexity of programing is not solemnly beneficial for the consumer, but also for
Rather than keeping them, away I do try my best to make the right choices, but I do agree with Johnson that my selections usually fall into the rating and content of the show instead focusing on how their reaction for instance are they interacting or being numbed? There has a been a huge increase in TV programing and I see eye to eye with
Johnson that due to the demand of narrative complexity and the multi-threading TV programing has become interesting to watch. Same with video games they become more interactive making the gamer feel as if they are in the game. Maybe if we start seeing “the virtue of pop culture as a cognitive workout and not as life lessons” (279) we could agree that
Johnson argument is a bit reasonable. I believe that both of this distraction could be consider more of a cognitive workout rather than a life lesson I do not think that by the end of their distraction, the viewer is hoping to have learned a life lesson. However, while part taking in these diversions, the brain is working a lot trying to take in all the information and trying to keeping up with everything that is going on in the screen. However, I would not encourage anyone especially young adults and children to