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In an age of media fragmentation, here

In an age of media fragmentation, here are ten cultural events that are still shared collective experiences among US citizens, including the Super Bowl, Harry Potter, and The Da Vinci Code.

By Jason Kottke  •  Feb 3, 2006  •  books   Harry Potter   movies   popculture   sports   Super Bowl

Steven Johnson says watching TV makes you smarter

Steven Johnson says watching TV makes you smarter. The argument is that media has had to get more cognitively challenging to hold the attention of viewers. Evolutionarily speaking, attention is the scarce commodity that creates competition here, driving adaptation in the direction of more social and narrative complexity to hold that attention.

By Jason Kottke  •  Apr 24, 2005  •  18 comments  •  popculture   science   Steven Johnson   TV

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