Nobody “stays tuned” anymore, except to UI metaphors that linger long past peak meaningfulness. Tuning a radio or TV has evolved to finding and saving frequency presets during setup that we then occasionally click through when we’re not streaming on-demand non-live media feeds.
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Back in the days, changing channels, or surfing required some effort (including the “finding the remote” step), “staying tuned” required none. That’s been reversed. The passive mode is surfing now. “Staying tuned” requires effort. You have to track continuity like a hunter.
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In web design we call it stickyness (the impulse to get users to not want to leave your site)
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hitting refresh takes a different degree of consciousness than staying on a channel
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