Everything Bad Is Good for You

In Everything Bad Is Good For You, Steven Johnson procedures many scientific methods and presents point of view stating that popular culture does not to a greater extentover halt negative impacts on us. In the introduction of the telly section, he short tells us the truth that the obscureity of mod TV shows is rising and it overly makes pot to a greater extent intelligent. To support his ideas, Johnson divides the content into three parts threefold threading, Flashing Arrows, and favorable Networks. Multiple threading is very common in modern television shows but not in past shows.Johnson uses four graphs which intelligibly show the amount of plot content in relation to the path time of four episodes from different shows, to depict changes of complexity in TV dramas. In one drama, Dragnet, the narrative only focuses on one plotline a few years later, the numbers of plotline have been increased in other drama called The Sopranos. The march strongly supports Johnsons sta tement Multiple threading twists more complex and abundant in modern television dramas. However, it is not the only reason that makes TV shows more complicated.Flashing Arrows, which had allowed viewers to follow the plot more easily television shows of the past, disappe bed and were alter in modern soap dramas and sitcoms. TV shows stopped using flashing arrows because listenings have been learned to find the isolated answers in the shows for many years. In soap operas, flashing arrows have been transformed to texture and substance (p. 78), which are used for building up a realistic dramatic situation in the drama. In sitcoms, flashing arrows become a reward of knowing the in-joke by attaining extra information removed the shows.Although sitcoms become more complex, they are not the only shows that have changed. brotherly networks are mainly used in reality programming and political debates. When audiences watch The Apprentice or Survivor, a reality show, they will use fond intelligence (p. 96) to judge participants personalities. Each facial expression and put through from the participants provides clues to audiences for the judgment. In political debates, audiences will judge the politicians appearances, speech, skin color or actions to decide the votes. Social intelligence is a brain activity that people will do it automatically when they try to make decisions. Johnsons evidence has shown social intelligence has been improved by reality shows. However, social networks do not only represent the network among participants and audiences, but also the social relationships of characters in the TV dramas. The social mapping of 24 clearly shows the complex relationships among all the characters. There are four families being involved in the show, but the relationships are not obvious to the audience.Audiences need to build up the social connections by watching the show. The process is difficult and challenging, but the audience has already gotten used to it by training from the past thirty years. Social networks are also a part of making audiences become smarter. Basically, Johnson thinks television has become more complex because of multithreading, flashing arrows and social network. These three elements are also important to peoples brain activity which has do them smarter.