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September 1, 2019

You need an accelerator pedal AND a brake

How does mindfulness practice improve psychological and physical well-being? By stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS), which controls many automatic and involuntary actions as…

August 15, 2019

What does the future hold for Slow Journalism?

Some proponents think the genre has great potential for marketing itself as a distinctive brand or anti-brand, resistant to the homogenizing standardization of mass-produced…

August 1, 2019

Slow reading = deep thinking

Many reading experts advise us to go slower. According to Maryanne Wolf, the developmental psychologist and author of Proust and the Squid: The Story…

July 15, 2019

Being mindful = slowing down your mind

Mindfulness teaches us to slow down, pay attention to media habits, and find new ways of relating to technology, other people, and ourselves. If…

July 1, 2019

“Machinery hurtful to Commonality”

Like the Slow movement is today, Luddism was a struggle against industrial capitalism. Those preindustrial saboteurs fought against not machinery in general but a…

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.