Liu 1 Kenny Liu Professor Jenae Reese English 101 07/09/2013 Does watching TV make you smarter or a better TV watcher? Steven Johnson, an author and a columnist in New York Times, published an essay in New York Times called “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” in 2005. In the essay, he argued that watching TV could make the viewer smarter instead of being an idiot box. He made this statement because of “The Sleeper Curve”, which Johnson introduced this term in the essay. Because of Sleeper Curve, according to Johnson, TV viewers need to improve their skill to watch modern TV shows with multiple plot lines.
I am not saying that having nice things is a bad. Of course we all want the newest products and most reliable hardware. Most of the time it makes our lives easier and more efficient. The problem arises when we allow these materials to consume us. It is a problem when we buy an LCD flat screen television that we cannot afford.
The context of the text is also more appealing to me: talking about the positive and good things about social media rather than scaremongering and causing dread in just the simple use of them. I also prefer the basic white background with black text rather than the colourful background because it’s a bit distracting and it doesn’t add anything to the text itself. Also the text in the leaflet seems to be comprised mainly of facts and statistics which do not appeal to me nor do they sway my current opinion of social networking as a whole. The leaflet being in leaflet form however is the biggest reason that it doesn’t appeal me. If it were in a form of a website it could perhaps be more enticing and more appealing to me, but alas it is not.
Nicholas Carr is the author of the article “Is Goggle making us stupid? Google proponents say that it’s not, they say that we don’t have to use our memory as much as before. Thanks to Google we have more time now to daydream or brainstorm. Or that we can see Google as an huge external hard disk for our brain. Carr thinks that this is bullshit.
He says "Cram them full of noncombustible data [and] they'll get a sense of motion without moving" (Bradbury 61). Beatty would go on to compare a person that conforms to the technologically dominated world to those that don't by saying "Any man who can take a TV apart [will be] happier than any man who [attempts] to equate the universe" (Bradbury 61). Beatty views may seem harsh, but in reality it seen in today's world. For example, the article "Beware, Tech Abandoners. People Without Facebook Accounts Are Suspicious"
Dana Stevens "Thinking Outside the Idiot Box" is a direct response to Steven Johnson's essay " Watching TV makes you Smarter". Stevens said that she did not understand what his article was about. She did not really agree with anything besides that watching tv is okay-- you should'nt watch a lot of it but you should watch a decent amount of it. Some things that Stevens seemed to talk a lot about was that Johnson metioned something the show 24 saying that it is "nutritional" but fails to mention that there was controversy over plot lines that had to do with torture and representation of Muslim terrorists in the show. But she does mention that the show did somehow get social issues into the show which can open viewers eyes about what is going
The regulation of dopamine, another brain neurotransmitter, also appears to be faulty in people with fibromyalgia. Taken together, these abnormalities appear to lower the threshold at which the individual feels and tolerates pain. As an experiment, he put a file on a USB thumb drive and plugged it into the TV. Sure enough,
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Most people find that looking things up on the internet is distracting because you are already on the web so why not check YouTube for a funny video, or update your status on the social network. Is the advancing of our technology worth the making us dumber as Nicholas Carr states in his piece, "Is Google Making us Stupid?" We are live in a technologically civilized society.
Television is not so bad, there are multiple programs that are educational, relaxing, and also have intense structural stories similar to a story in a book. Movie critic Dana Stevens argues that TV does not make a person smarter. Stevens does not give a substantial amount of evidence to argue that TV is bad. Today’s television programs contain story lines with complex