{"id":1021,"date":"2005-10-28T11:57:48","date_gmt":"2005-10-28T15:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/28\/meanwhile-civil-online-discourse-continues\/"},"modified":"2005-10-28T11:57:48","modified_gmt":"2005-10-28T15:57:48","slug":"meanwhile-civil-online-discourse-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/28\/meanwhile-civil-online-discourse-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, Civil Online Discourse Continues&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <I>if:Book<\/I>, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofthebook.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/everything_bad.html\">Bob Stein takes serious issue<\/A> with Steven Johnson&#8217;s <I>Everything Bad Is Good For You<\/I>, a book which proposes that video games and television drama make us &#8220;smarter.&#8221; He asks: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;How can you define good and bad simply in terms of whether one&#8217;s brain is better at multi-tasking and problem-solving? I&#8217;ll grant that this shift in raw brain power might make us more effective worker bees for our techno-capitalist society, but it doesn&#8217;t mean that the substance of our lives or the social fabric is improved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The critique <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofthebook.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/everything_bad_1.html\">builds<\/A> and <A href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofthebook.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/games_provide_m.html\">builds<\/A>, but then <A href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofthebook.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/everything_bad_2.html\">Johnson gets to reply<\/A>. It&#8217;s an interesting debate&#8212;and <A href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofthebook.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/everything_bad_4.html\">it&#8217;s still going on<\/A>, so do have a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at if:Book, Bob Stein takes serious issue with Steven Johnson&#8217;s Everything Bad Is Good For You, a book which proposes that video games and television drama make us &#8220;smarter.&#8221; He asks: &#8220;How can you define good and bad simply in terms of whether one&#8217;s brain is better at multi-tasking and problem-solving? I&#8217;ll grant that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}