Does Watching Tv Make You Smarter By Steven Johnson Analysis

Does Watching TV Actually Make You Smarter? In America, television takes up a large portion of people's lives, spending hour’s binge watching all types of different shows. Many people believe that watching these shows makes them unintelligent, but Steven Johnson assumes otherwise. In Johnson’s “Watching TV Makes You Smarter”, he gives readers a new perspective of television. Johnson argues that television has developed over the years and requires more cognitive demand in today's shows. Johnson does this by comparing and contrasting different shows and breaking them down to the core to review the context and different plots. The argument he makes about television in his thesis is very strong when he mentions that the culture of television is getting more cognitively demanding than less. Although television is inherently intellectual, society is craving television shows that require more and more cognitively demanding thinking, it requires one to be in touch with real world references, it increases social interaction, and different plot

“Over the proceeding weeks, a number of public controversies had erupted around 24, mostly focused on its portrait of schools from terrorist him it’s a penchant for torture scenes.”(Johnson 278). Had one not been updating on current events they would have no clue why they are being so bias against them and what happened to make them feel this way. For many shows it is the same, one has to know what has been going on in current events to catch a joke or a witty punchline. Otherwise, it would go out of one ear and out of the other simply because they are not up to date with popular culture. In shows like Family Guy, they oftentimes make fun of firsthand reactions especially in things like Ebola or terrorist activities. If one was not into popular culture references, these shows can be very