Flow and Media Enjoyment Discussion

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People use media for enjoyment, but there are many questions regarding why they do. Humans are self-regulating, and they choose to use a medium for enjoyment. According to Rosengren, humans have basic needs, individual differences, and societal pressures that lead to different perceived problems and motivations, which can lead to media use. Many researchers have discovered that entertainment including arousal, to pass time, and relaxation are reasons why children use media. Entertainment was found to be synonymous with enjoyment. Enjoyment includes relief from overstimulation through relaxation and understimulation through arousal. Entertainment highlights emotional pleasure, and media is an outlet for individuals to escape real life to enjoy a fantasy world. Csikszentmihalyi established the theory of flow where artists when immersed in their work and cut off from the world were pleased. He stated that enjoyment is a self-motivating experience. Furthermore, activities that create a flow state have set goals and rules, opportunities based on capabilities, clear information on how the...

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