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Slow Media - Jennifer Rauch

Slow Media

Why Slow is Satisfying, Sustainable, and Smart

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Buch | Softcover
208 Seiten
2022
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-762602-3 (ISBN)
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Slow Media examines innovative theories and practices that connect mediated life with social and environmental sustainability, including mindful use of media, green media consumption, and other new and compelling perspectives on media's socio-cultural impact. Jennifer Rauch reveals the surprising connections between human well-being, the natural world, and everyday media choices.
Today we recognize that we have a different relationship to media technology--and to information more broadly--than we had even five years ago. We are connected to the news media, to our jobs, and to each other, 24 hours a day. But many people have found their mediated lives to be too fast, too digital, too disposable, and too distracted. This group--which includes many technologists and young people--believes that current practices of digital media production and consumption are unsustainable, and works to promote alternate ways of living.

Until recently, sustainable media practices have been mostly overlooked, or thought of as a counterculture. But, as Jennifer Rauch argues in this book, the concept of sustainable media has taken hold and continues to gain momentum. Slow media is not merely a lifestyle choice, she argues, but has potentially great implications for our communities and for the natural world. In eight chapters, Rauch offers a model of sustainable media that is slow, green, and mindful. She examines the principles of the Slow Food movement--humanism, localism, simplicity, self-reliance, and fairness--and applies them to the use and production of media. Challenging the perception that digital media is necessarily eco-friendly, she examines green media, which offers an alternative to a current commodities system that produces electronic waste and promotes consumption of nonrenewable resources. Lastly, she draws attention to mindfulness in media practice--"mindful emailing" or "contemplative computing," for example--arguing that media has significant impacts on human health and psychological wellbeing.

Slow Media will ultimately help readers understand the complex and surprising relationships between everyday media choices, human well-being, and the natural world. It has the potential to transform the way we produce and use media by nurturing a media ecosystem that is more satisfying for people, and more sustainable for the planet.

Jennifer Rauch is an award-winning writer, educator, and researcher whose work focuses on alternative media, media activism, and popular culture. She is author of the Slow Media blog, two book chapters, and a dozen scholarly articles. She has talked about Slow Media, digital detox, and unplugging in the press worldwide, including NPR's Marketplace, The Huffington Post, Medium, Radio National (Australia), The Daily Beast, and La Presse (Montreal). Dr. Rauch serves as Professor of Journalism and Communication Studies at Long Island University Brooklyn, where she is a judge of the Polk Awards for excellence in journalism.

Acknowledgements
Preface: The Bearable Lightness of Slowing
1 Introduction: Alternative Visions of Sustainable Media
2 Slow Media: Lessons from the Food Revolution
3 "Good, Clean, Fair": A Sustainability Framework for Journalism
4 Toward Green Media: New Directions in Environmental Citizenship & Scholarship
5 Mind Your Media: Moving From Distraction to Attention
6 We Are All Post-Luddites Now
7 Conclusion: Toward a Sustainable Media Future
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 239 x 157 mm
Gewicht 295 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Journalistik
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Wirtschaft
ISBN-10 0-19-762602-5 / 0197626025
ISBN-13 978-0-19-762602-3 / 9780197626023
Zustand Neuware
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