Streaming intensifies compulsive flow rather than freeing viewing from scheduled flow

Evidence

Flow is thus intensified rather than dispersed by streaming platforms, media historian Dennis Broe argues, since individual spectators are even more oriented toward bingeing content and heeding the imperative to sustain new draw. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 209

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the common claim that on-demand streaming liberated viewers from broadcast flow (Raymond Williams’ concept); reader can weigh this against immediacy-as-binge structure.