Images are more prevalent that ever. People are more interested in seeing information that having to read it. The influx of videos and images on the internet have changed the way we go about consuming and sharing information. The biggest appeal of visual content is how easy it is to convey complex messages in a very quick manner. Is this trend of simplicity appealing to the mass marketing a good thing? In Steven Johnson's Watching Tv Makes You Smarter essay, Johnson makes the argument that complexity, particularly found in Television, actually stimulates the brain and involves the viewer in a way that is actually good for us. Is the simplicity found in much today's media, both social and entertainment-wise, going to bring our collective
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As opposed to complex things being done easily, Johnson argues that complex television is what people crave. “Audiences happily embrace that complexity because they have been trained by two decades of multi-threaded dramas”
It is like your brain is acting out what you think would happen, along with digesting the action happening on screen. The benefit of these shows don't come from learning and following the character's actions, it comes from thinking and question the situations, themes, and morals that the creators of show are pushing, interpreting, and discussing by proxy of their characters and episodes.
Media consumption is at peak and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. We all have some kind of device that will allow us to interact and digest any form of media, whether it's a book you keep on your living room table or the smart phone in your front pocket. All these forms of media require different ways of approaching them. For social media, simplicity prevails due to lack of commitment and it's fast paced nature. People generally don't have time to read a block of text, so an image with text on it explaining everything in a simple manner is best way to get your work to the viewers, and proof that this approach is responding well with the general public is very easy to see. When it comes to television, people who are looking for something more are going to be more likely to stay keyed in to a program that challenges their mind to think along aside with the show as opposed to asking them to turn their brain
As opposed to complex things being done easily, Johnson argues that complex television is what people crave. “Audiences happily embrace that complexity because they have been trained by two decades of multi-threaded dramas”
It is like your brain is acting out what you think would happen, along with digesting the action happening on screen. The benefit of these shows don't come from learning and following the character's actions, it comes from thinking and question the situations, themes, and morals that the creators of show are pushing, interpreting, and discussing by proxy of their characters and episodes.
Media consumption is at peak and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. We all have some kind of device that will allow us to interact and digest any form of media, whether it's a book you keep on your living room table or the smart phone in your front pocket. All these forms of media require different ways of approaching them. For social media, simplicity prevails due to lack of commitment and it's fast paced nature. People generally don't have time to read a block of text, so an image with text on it explaining everything in a simple manner is best way to get your work to the viewers, and proof that this approach is responding well with the general public is very easy to see. When it comes to television, people who are looking for something more are going to be more likely to stay keyed in to a program that challenges their mind to think along aside with the show as opposed to asking them to turn their brain