In media, flow is the “depthless circulation of disconnected images and sounds that exemplify the postmodern condition”. Through flow, human users are the main target and it is conducted methodically. Flow is essentially run by digiphrenia, or “the anxiety about being out of synch with our online identities and information flows”. This concept has constituted the digital age and our obsessions with keeping up multiple social media platforms. The screen time function built into phones today is a way to let users understand the amount of technology usage that they use on an everyday basis (as most of the time it is being used for meaningless functions). Additionally, I think a good example of flow, and this need to stay in tune with all current happenings, is through the decreased scene period in shows and movies. Over the past decade, the length of clips within tv episodes has decreased tremendously, and this is due to the shortened attention span of viewers. This evolution can be linked to user flow. Viewers get bored focusing on one scene and require new happenings. I think that this is similar to the phenomena of digiphrenia, because viewers are constantly trying to receive more and more content to stay in tune with information flows. Switching clips keeps viewers attention and feeds them with more and more information, allowing the series to stay afloat, and keep viewer interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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