Everything Bad Is Good For You: Games

This is a post that I missed from April first. The reading is is written by Steven Johnson, and his point of view on video games in society today. Right away Johnson shows gives specific exampled to his reader on why games aren't as horrible for you as some people may think. Johnson bring up the point that to watch certain television shows today you have to be able to make inferences, track shifting social relationships, and that to do all of these tasks the viewer has to pay attention. This instantly made me realize that Johnson is right. Theres a lot more to watching television show than jut sitting down and looking at the screen. A viewer has to remember characters, and their roles in show. For a series a view may need to use previous knowledge from a different episode. As I continued to read i learned that Johnson has many more of these excellent examples. He brings up the point that a video game would improve a child hand eye coordination more than holding a book would. I liked this example because it is counter arguing that all video games are bad for you. Overall Johnson made a really good argument. He shifted my opinion.