Steven Johnson Watching Tv Makes You Smarter Analysis

Watching TV : Worthy or not Worthy? In the article” Watching TV Makes You Smarter,” the author Steven Johnson argues over the past decade that TV programs have changed its scheme from single complex narrative plots of “masses want dumb things” (Johnson, 278). to multi threat or “cognitive demanding” (Johnson,278). which basically means passing from boring and difficult programs to challenging issues which the audience would find it interest and importantly to use their brain to solve them. Johnson shows example of TV. shows that have changes their structure such as Sopranos, and Dragnet for instance. Also, Johnson argues that bad TV shows that contain controversial topics and violence would make our brain healthy rather than sick because “ What Johnson [he] argues for is a change in the criteria we use to determine what really is a cognitive junk food and what’s genuinely …show more content…
Johnson argues that “categorized” violence, and explicit content can improve our learning and cognitive process, but it doesn’t explain the change of behavior that might affect us if we are expose to such programs. For example, Johnson illustrates an entry in his article that “the fox network showed an episode its hit drama 24…” (Johnson,277) where “a terrorist kill his child for not fully support the jihadist cause…, and the secretary of defense authorizes the torture of his son to uncover evidence of a terrorist plot.” (Johnson,278) obviously, this type of content can not be show to the kids because it might cause them fear and nightmares while their parents wouldn’t receive any effect at all because they understand how the world