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from the just-one-more-episode...and-then-the-sun-comes-up dept.
The increasing popularity of global media content like American TV series has been considered as one notable factor associated with binge-watching practices, or continuously consuming media content in a single session.
With the massive global expansion of streaming platforms like Netflix—which had more than 154 million subscribers in over 190 countries in 2019—this practice of marathon viewing of televised content has gradually become a "new ritual" for many viewers.
But not without a price.
Indeed, an American Academy of Sleep Medicine survey in 2019 found 88% of American adults reported a lack of sleep due to binge-watching television and streaming series.
As the use of online streaming services to consume televised content is becoming more common globally, the problem of binge-watching behavior may also become a global phenomenon.
[...] It is inevitable that binge-watching has become a new normal among today's audiences. Yet, given the negative health ramifications associated with it, can we move beyond that? We could try savoring one episode at one time in a slow watching practice.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @08:04AM (2 children)
of pervasive surveillance when you are out in society.
With every passing year I feel more comfortable in my house, the last bastion of privacy in an otherwise privacy-free world.
Maybe i could move to the country, or emigrate somewhere it is less pervasive, but for how long, and at what cost?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @05:30PM
You get +3 anonymous upmods
Someone should make a sketch where a couple of guys in trench coats just follow someone around, some minor law is broken and they pull in the coats as witnesses and the defendant asks "you really had these guys follow me around just for that?" and the judge replies "well we tried putting cameras everywhere but people got mad."
Everyone in the sketch looks deadpan at the camera.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday February 14 2020, @07:23PM
What about the pervasive surveillance when you are at home typing away on a computer?
With every passing year, your in-home privacy is diminishing. Smart TVs with cameras. (the closest things to "telescreens" yet!) Ring. Alexa. Google Assistant. Nest. Etc.
Suspicious activity such as that could get you put on a watch list.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.