A new era of viewing, binge watching
Review article
Keywords:
binge-watching, mental and social well-being, motivation, negative consequencesAbstract
The media watching habits of the population have changed due to the advancement in digital technology. Many OTT platforms release the show in full episode all at once as a common practice. This practice forces viewers to watch the entire session at one sitting. This practice of non-stop viewing the web series is known as Binge watching/Binge-Viewing/Marathon-viewing. This narrative review article contains published articles from Google scholar, PubMed, and National Informatic Centre. This study aims to find out the physical, mental and social effects of Binge-watching and motives which forces the viewers to Binge-watch. In this review sixteen research articles were selected under the headings of introduction to Binge-watching, Binge-watching and Physical health, Binge watching and Mental Health and Binge watching and social interactions. The reviews showed that the Binge-watching had direct correlation between the physical, mental and social well-being of the people. The most common negative consequences of Binge-watching is , Lack of sleep, un healthy dietary habits, tiredness, stress, anxiety, depression, lack of sperm count in males and social isolation etc.
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