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March 1, 2019

Another media culture is possible

Slow Media, like Slow Food, encourages people to reassess consumer culture, to conserve natural resources, to resist commodification, to fight standardization, and to preserve…

February 15, 2019

Let’s break the clocks and refuse the quickening of our lives

Few could have predicted two decades ago that Slow Food visions of the good life would inspire such innovative thinking about how our media…

December 15, 2018

A Slow News Podcast from Denmark

A group of young journalism students in Aarhus, Denmark, have launched the new podcast “Slow News.” They aim to give listeners an alternative to…

December 14, 2018

Now Streaming for Kids: Slow TV

Vermont PBS has launched a new children’s show that aims to promote emotional awareness and development in its viewers through respect, inclusion and participation….

October 8, 2018

The Nine-Year Quest to Publish “Slow Media”

“Congrats, I can imagine that getting a book out to the world is quite a process!” That’s the kind of thing people have been…

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.