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In You Are What You Watch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and data expert Walt Hickey explains the power of entertainment to change our biology, our beliefs, how we see ourselves, and how nations gain power through entertainment.. Virtually anyone who has ever watched a profound movie, a powerful TV show, or read a moving novel understands that entertainment can and does affect us in surprising and significant ways. But did you know that our most popular forms of entertainment can have a direct physical effect on us, a measurable impact on society, geopolitics, the economy, and even the future itself? In You Are What You Watch, Walter Hickey, Pulitzer Prize winner and former chief culture writer at acclaimed data site FiveThirtyEight.com, proves how exactly how what we watch (and read and listen to) has a far greater effect on us and the world at large than we imagine.
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Walt is Insider's Deputy Editor for Data and Analysis. He came from FiveThirtyEight where he was chief culture writer. He also writes Numlock News, a daily morning newsletter. Walt previously worked at Business Insider from 2012 to 2013, and graduated from The College of William and Mary with a degree in Applied Mathematics. In additon to his work on elections and data journalism, he also edits comics at Insider. In 2022, Hickey won the Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting for his work on Insider's I Escaped A Chinese Internment Camp documenting the plight of Uyghurs in China.
