Television: Article Responses: Watching Tv Makes You.
Response Essay February 3, 2016 Is TV Really the Best Option? What’s the best way to get smarter? In Steven Johnson’s article for The New York Times, “Watching TV Makes You Smarter,” he argues that TV improves our cognitive abilities due to his belief that media is becoming more complex. Along with this main argument, he also believes that parents should encourage more complex media.
Response to “Thinking Outside the Idiot Box” by Dana Stevens. In Steven Johnson’s article “Watching TV Makes You Smarter,” he explains that the TV shows in the present day are hard to follow which makes the audience have to think more by following overlapping character stories. However Dana Stevens argues that Johnson’s claims are misleading, because he fails to incorporate all.
The more TV they watch, the better their grades. If parents are not stimulating, then the kids do better watching the idiot box than conversing with their parents, sad to say. Incidentally, it is.
Steven Johnson says watching TV makes you smarter. The argument is that media has had to get more cognitively challenging to hold the attention of viewers. Evolutionarily speaking, attention is the scarce commodity that creates competition here, driving adaptation in the direction of more social and narrative complexity to hold that attention.
In Stephen Johnson’s “Watching TV Makes You Smarter,” he reflects on how watching TV can actually increase intelligence. The basic plot of each episode of the TV show, “24,” is explained. The various reasons why the show, and media in general, are becoming more cognitively demanding, not less like many assume, is explained. In these shows, not every detail is explained, leaving the.
In the article Watching TV Makes You Smarter by Steven Johnson, he argues that it takes more brain power to decode and think through some of the shows that are on today. George F. Will would argue that even if the television shows deal with more complicated concepts and it takes more brain power to pick up on the humor, those television shows are also contributing to our desensitized nature.
If you have ever visited Japan, then think of the Tokyo subway. (There's a lot going on, but to daily commuters that is the standard level of data to process). Evidence suggests that — in humans.