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October 5, 2009

The digital juggernaut: Resistance isn’t futile!

Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation, after his assimilation by the Borg. Whenever I see people walking down the street wearing…

September 28, 2009

More signs of a Slow Media Movement… on Facebook

People keep pointing out to me the apparent "irony" of fueling a digital-media resistance movement via the Internet. Many critics of the present environment,…

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.

September 23, 2009

Desert island medium

If you were stuck alone on a desert island for three days and could pick one single medium to use, which would it be?…

September 23, 2009

Technophiles and technophobes

In the Mass Media & Culture class, we've been talking about different theories about and attitudes toward the role of media technologies in our…

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.