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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…

May 15, 2019

Shaking the “more-faster-better” habit

Mindful media unsettles the assumption that fast is good and slow is bad. Our default mode for using media has become what David Levy…

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…

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.