Grant McCracken discusses binge watching at wired.com
Why do we binge watch? One way to answer this question is to say, well, we binge on TV for the same reason we binge on food. For a sense of security, creature comfort, to make the world go away. And these psychological factors are no doubt apt.
But the anthropological ones are perhaps just as useful and a little less obvious. Because (…) “culture is a thing of surfaces and secrets,” and the anthropologist is obliged to record the first and penetrate the second to figure out what’s really going on.
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From Arrested Development to Dr. Who, Binge Watching Is Changing Our Culture
By Grant McCracken 05.24.13
