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Category: Anti-conformity

March 23, 2012

Happy Unplugging Day!

  A little humor in honor of the National Day of Unplugging (March 23-24 this year). Reboot, who promotes this annual event, even participated…

December 30, 2011

Protest visionary: E-mail feels like “denial-of-service attack against my brain”

Adbusters editor and protest motivator Micah White prefers people to send letters to his snail-mail address. His website reads: "Micah does not use Facebook,…

December 29, 2011

A third of Americans still resisting Facebook

Jenna Wortham might be a kindred spirit. As a tech reporter at the NY Times, she's written about young people who are indifferent to…

January 24, 2011

Back online, somewhat ambivalently

People sent me a lot of postcards during the digital-detox experiment, but this one is probably my favorite since it combines postcard, newspaper and…

October 5, 2009

The digital juggernaut: Resistance isn’t futile!

Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation, after his assimilation by the Borg. Whenever I see people walking down the street wearing…

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I’m Jennifer Rauch, an educator, scholar and author of Slow Media: Why Slow Means Satisfying, Sustainable & Smart (Oxford University Press), which won a Silver Nautilus Book Award and was named a finalist for the Marshall McLuhan Book Award.

I study, speak and write about alternative  journalism, news audiences, media literacy, and the cultural impacts of new technologies. In particular, I am an authority on public trust in journalism and deliberate abstention from media use.

My work has appeared in scholarly journals like Communication, Culture & Critique and Media, Culture & Society as well as popular outlets such as the Huffington Post, Medium, Thrive Global, and Urban Audubon.

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