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June 15, 2019

People are “not designed to live at the speed of light”

Marshall McLuhan, the public intellectual often seen as a proselytizer for new technologies, suggested that the US should get rid of television for at…

June 8, 2019

Slow Media honored with Silver Nautilus Book Award

Slow Media has won a prestigious Silver Nautilus Book Award, in honor of “its contribution to building a better world and its potent message…

June 7, 2019

Slow Media joins forces with Douglas Rushkoff’s “Team Human”

Humanity now has an official team, and it has recruited Slow Media. I’m excited to be joining Team Human to talk with media theorist,…

June 1, 2019

Let’s value diversity in media habits and practices

Just as our soil is enriched by growing lots of different things in different ways instead of having a monoculture, our society is enriched…

May 28, 2019

Idler endorses SM:WSISSAS as “book of the week”

The charming magazine-academy-festival Idler (UK) has named Slow Media: Why “Slow” is Satisfying, Sustainable and Smart its “book of the week.” Editors noted that…

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.