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May 1, 2019

“Start taking the politics of time seriously”

The Slow perspective encourages us to challenge our assumptions about media choices, to look beyond speed, and to imagine alternatives that enhance both sustainability…

April 15, 2019

You don’t have to go live in the woods (unless you want to)

What can you do to further the cause of Slow Media, as a citizen, student, colleague, and consumer? Just make time for enjoying print…

March 20, 2019

Let’s use tech to promote pre-digital values: connection, creativity and respect

Douglas Rushkoff has long been one of my public-intellectual heroes – a short list that also includes Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein and Bob McChesney….

March 15, 2019

“Looking for a dimmer switch on technology”

One of goal of Slow Media is to help subvert false or binary choices about digital media use. However, the larger problem is whether…

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…

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.