Topic > Discussion on media flow and enjoyment - 580

People use media for entertainment, but there are many questions about why they do so. Humans are self-regulating and choose to use a medium for entertainment. According to Rosengren, humans have basic needs, individual differences, and social pressures that lead to different perceived problems and motivations, which can lead to media use. Many researchers have found that entertainment, including excitement, pastime, and relaxation, are the reasons why children use media. It turns out that entertainment is synonymous with fun. Enjoyment includes relief from overstimulation through relaxation and from understimulation through arousal. Entertainment highlights emotional pleasure, and media is an outlet through which individuals escape real life to enjoy a fantasy world. Csikszentmihalyi established the flow theory according to which artists, when immersed in their work and cut off from the world, were satisfied. He said enjoyment is a self-motivating experience. Furthermore, activities that create a flow state have set goals and rules, skill-based opportunities, clear information on how to do it...