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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,…

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…

March 18, 2021

The Frankenstein Tree

November 1, 2019

The joy of alternating between fast and slow

While Slow Media questions the desirability of going as fast as possible, it does not argue that people should do everything slow all the…

October 15, 2019

Print and analog media revivals aren’t just “nostalgia”

Some people assume that Slow Media is a nostalgic or conservative reaction against digital culture. My research on the persistence of print and analog…

October 1, 2019

“Obsolete” is in the eye of the beholder

In Slow Media communities, people don’t necessarily equate newer with better. Like cultural creatives and alternative media users, people who enjoy Slow Media are…

September 15, 2019

“Slow Media”? It sure beats residual, legacy, heirloom, dead or zombie media

Many have pondered the endurance of old media in a digital world and observed how people reuse, repair, and recycle artifacts such as telephones,…

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.