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February 1, 2010

Is e-mailing more like “writing” or more like “talking”?

The Pew Internet in American Life Project released a fascinating report last month on "Teens, Technology & Writing" that concluded, "Teens write a lot,…

January 24, 2010

Celebrate National Handwriting Day

How's your penmanship these days? With the development of more affordable and sophisticated writing gadgets, American Educator magazine notes, "It seems the death of…

December 18, 2009

“The weirdest three hours I ever spent,” student says

Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised that students in my Mass Media & Culture class were ambivalent toward my critique of digital communication and my…

September 25, 2009

The true cost of digital media, Exhibit A: Handwriting

This 2009 handwriting sample comes from an adult male in Brooklyn, New York.

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.