As explained in the reading, flow can be regarded as “the impulse to go on watching.” (74) Flow has the ability to create a network of connections across multiple different media sources. As we continuously discussed in class, identity can be mapped as node with flow happening through it. Notifications, text messages, account data, and gifs all act as examples of flow through identity. Moreover, flow can also be seen in social media apps and television shows. When it comes to TikTok, there are videos consistently present on a users FYP. This helps them to remain entertained and to continue to utilize what the app has to offer. Similarly, Instagram also features a wide variety of never-ending posts and televisions shows tend to keep up with the storylines throughout each episode and use cliff-hangers to keep viewers interested as well. Flow is a part of many aspects of the media world and aids in keeping many apps and shows going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As explained in the reading, flow can be regarded as “the impulse to go on watching.” (74) Flow has the ability to create a network of connections across multiple different media sources. As we continuously discussed in class, identity can be mapped as node with flow happening through it. Notifications, text messages, account data, and gifs all act as examples… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176988,87686],"tags":[68103,206357,191795,68085],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flow","category-keywords","tag-instagram","tag-notifications","tag-television-show","tag-tiktok"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}