As the Covid Lockdown (or semi-lockdown, depending on where you are) continues, there’s one thing we all have to talk about… binge watching. This is a fairly new phenomena (less than 20 years) but wouldn’t you know it? The effects aren’t just loss of sleep, leftovers piling up on your coffee table, or an unhealthy obsession with chess, tigers, or superheroes. There are actual health effects, and researchers have had time to study them…
UB researcher studies effects of binge-watching on health, David Hill in Buffalo.Edu, Apr 2019
The Impact of Binge-Watching on Your Health, Katie Kochanny at Michigan State University
Breaking Binge: Exploring The Effects Of Binge Watching On Television Viewer Reception, Lesley Lisseth Pena at Syracuse University, Jun 2015
Understanding the Phenomenon of Binge-Watching—A Systematic Review, Starosta and Izydorczyk at the National Institutes of Health, Jun 2020
Effects of Emotion on Binge-Watching, Victoria Anozie at Baylor University, Jan 2020
The Netflix Effect and Defining Bingewatching, Brenna Davis at VCU Honors College, 2016
How binge-watching is hazardous to your health, Jenna Birch on Washington Post, Jun 2019
