Binge-Watching Serial Video Content: Exploring the Subjective Phenomenology of the Binge-Watching Experience. Issue 1 (2nd January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Anghelcev, George; Sar, Sela; Martin, Justin D.; Moultrie, Jas L.
• Is Part Of: Mass communication & society. Volume 24:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 130
• Page End: 154
• Publication Date: 2021-01-02
• Subjects: Mass media -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Mass media and culture -- Periodicals; Communication -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Communication and culture -- Periodicals; Journalism -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Médias -- Aspect social -- Périodiques; Médias et culture -- Périodiques; Communication -- Aspect social -- Périodiques; Communication et culture -- Périodiques; Presse -- Aspect social -- Périodiques; Communication and culture; Communication -- Social aspects; Journalism -- Social aspects; Mass media and culture; Mass media -- Social aspects; Periodicals; 302.23
• DOI: 10.1080/15205436.2020.1811346
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1520-5436

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This study examined psychological constructs related to the subjective experience of binge-watching serial video content. The results underscore the centrality of transportation in shaping viewers' perceptions of the binge-watching experience and their binge-watching behaviors. Transportation was positively related to binge-watching frequency and mediated the impact of binge-watching session length on development of parasocial interactions (full mediation) and on binge-watching enjoyment (partial mediation). Ability to experience flow was found to predict the length of a binge-watching session. Other significant relationships were revealed. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed, along with suggestions for future research and the possibility of expanding current conceptual views of binge-watching.