Inspired by Slow Food, a lot of people—including me—have suggested that it’s better for our brains, bodies and society when we read, communicate, and get the news at a more sustainable pace. Slow values transformed how many of us make, buy and consume food. Could slowness improve our information and entertainment ecosystems, too? Here are some key conversations about adding a dose of slowness to your mediated life.
- “Move Over Slow Food: Introducing Slow Media” by Elissa Altman, HuffPost.
- “Time for a Slow-Word Movement” by Trevor Butterworth, Forbes.
- “The Slow Media Manifesto” by Sabria David, Jorg Blumtritt and Benedikt Kohler, Slow Media Institut.
- “Not So Fast: A Manifesto for Slow Communication” by John Freeman, Wall Street Journal.
- “Slow Journalism: Why Doesn’t the UK Have a Culture of Serious Non-fiction Like the U.S.?” by Susan Greenberg, Prospect.
- “The Slow News Movement” by Arianna Huffington, HuffPost.
- “A Slow-Books Manifesto: Read Books. As Often as You Can. Mostly Classics” by Maura Kelly, The Atlantic.
- “The Art of Slow Reading” by Patrick Kingsley, The Guardian.
- “Reading, Fast and Slow” by Jessica Love, The American Scholar.
- “After Shirley Sherrod, Time for the Slow-Blogging Movement” by Ruth Marcus, The Washington Post.
- “After Brightbart and Shirley Sherrod, We Need a Slow-News Movement” by Walter Shapiro, Politics Daily.