{"id":1278,"date":"2021-11-18T11:44:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T16:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2021-11-18T11:44:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T16:44:12","slug":"flow-chloe-fandetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/18\/flow-chloe-fandetti\/","title":{"rendered":"Flow \u2013 Chloe Fandetti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Flow is the impulse to keep on watching. I think flow is especially relevant in the strategies that streaming services use to keep viewers interested. Television shows often have cliffhangers at the end of each episode to motivate and tempt viewers to continue watching. With streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime, multiple episodes and seasons are readily available, so viewers can binge watch rather than waiting a full week for the next episode to be released. Streaming services are especially convenient because you can sign into your account on a phone\/computer\/tv and watch from anywhere (on the bus, at a hotel, in a park), so location does not hinder the flow of media. Moreover, the \u201cNext Episode\u201d feature on Netflix makes it so easy to simply click a button once the credits roll to skip to the next episode. Even more, there is a countdown of about 5-10 seconds, so if you don\u2019t exit out of the show in that quick time frame, the next episode will automatically start. This feature, coupled with cliffhangers, encourages viewers to keep watching. Without much self control, it\u2019s pretty difficult to avoid binge watching because the flow is everlasting and the technology makes everything so convenient.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flow is the impulse to keep on watching. I think flow is especially relevant in the strategies that streaming services use to keep viewers interested. Television shows often have cliffhangers at the end of each episode to motivate and tempt viewers to continue watching. With streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime, multiple episodes and seasons are readily available,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/18\/flow-chloe-fandetti\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176988],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flow"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","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\/5395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}