In Absence of Content

Steven Johnson, author of the National Bestseller Everything Bad is Good for You, believes that the world of media i.e. games; video, television, and the internet are intellectually stimulating. While Johnson’s Sleeper Curve ideas are all around us and in most forms of media showing us that there is more to a particular medium than what meets the eye, but is Johnson only concentrating on these forms media. Video games, television shows, movies, and even the internet all show signs of intellectually activity just underneath the surface, and Johnson explains how these forms of media are good for us and actually help us out by increasing our brain's activity.

While most of the above is hard to argue, I must bring up the point that Johnson is not basing all of his findings on the particular content of a media. Just as a book can bring fourth the same message as a movie can. For me it is all about the content of a media no mater form it comes in. When we do not focus on the content of the message then we will portray the wrong meaning.