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: 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.