According to Oxford dictionary, pop culture is defined as “ Modern popular culture transmitted via the mass media and aimed particularly at younger people”. Pop culture cultivates individuals’ problem-solving facilities that allows the progression of their growth and intelligence. In the article, “Brain Candy,” Malcolm Gladwell analyzes Stevens Johnson's perspective towards popular culture and its effects on intelligence. Johnson introduces more ways of getting “smart” in “Everything Bad is good for you,” He reminds the audience that explicit learning is not the only type of learning that is considered important. Malcolm Gladwell agrees with Johnson that fluid problem - solving facility are necessary and play an important role in smartening
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Books do not get the children to think in complex direction due to the fact that it already have a plot set up and the story line cannot be changed. Therefore, it’s more of just reading words rather than getting the children to actually use their brain to think. Gladwell states, “books are simply a barren string of words on the page..” The stories are controlling the mind of the children. The readers cannot change or narrate the story which does not involve much of cognitive thinking. He agrees that it can isolate children while they are reading which completely blocks them off from the outside world. Gladwell explains, “Books force the children to sequester him or herself in a quiet space, shut off from interaction with other children…” Gladwell agrees that books tend to submis the readers because it not an active process. Children aren’t learning much or getting involved in cognitive thinking when sitting in a corner reading a book. According to Gladwell, being “smart” involves several methods of thinking rather than just reading a book which is a form of explicit …show more content…
Johnson points out that television nowadays are “Harder”. Tv nowadays are different from how they were back in the days. It involves more thinking due to its complexity of the plotline. “Modern television also requires the viewer to do a lot of what johnson calls “filling in,” as in a “Seinfeld” episode that subtly parodies the Kennedy assassination conspiracists, or a typical “Simpsons” episode, which may contain numerous allusions to politics or cinema or pop culture”. Nowadays, a show might have more than five character unlike before where there are only few characters and one story line. However, now there are several story lines within a show which makes the viewer think critically and cognitively about what is happening and what is going to happen next and so on. It also triggers the viewer to analyze the world they live and the people they hang out. Gladwell analyzes that by being aware of the surroundings, it smartens up an
Books do not get the children to think in complex direction due to the fact that it already have a plot set up and the story line cannot be changed. Therefore, it’s more of just reading words rather than getting the children to actually use their brain to think. Gladwell states, “books are simply a barren string of words on the page..” The stories are controlling the mind of the children. The readers cannot change or narrate the story which does not involve much of cognitive thinking. He agrees that it can isolate children while they are reading which completely blocks them off from the outside world. Gladwell explains, “Books force the children to sequester him or herself in a quiet space, shut off from interaction with other children…” Gladwell agrees that books tend to submis the readers because it not an active process. Children aren’t learning much or getting involved in cognitive thinking when sitting in a corner reading a book. According to Gladwell, being “smart” involves several methods of thinking rather than just reading a book which is a form of explicit …show more content…
Johnson points out that television nowadays are “Harder”. Tv nowadays are different from how they were back in the days. It involves more thinking due to its complexity of the plotline. “Modern television also requires the viewer to do a lot of what johnson calls “filling in,” as in a “Seinfeld” episode that subtly parodies the Kennedy assassination conspiracists, or a typical “Simpsons” episode, which may contain numerous allusions to politics or cinema or pop culture”. Nowadays, a show might have more than five character unlike before where there are only few characters and one story line. However, now there are several story lines within a show which makes the viewer think critically and cognitively about what is happening and what is going to happen next and so on. It also triggers the viewer to analyze the world they live and the people they hang out. Gladwell analyzes that by being aware of the surroundings, it smartens up an