{"product_id":"slow-media-jennifer-rauch-9780197626023","title":"Slow Media: Why Slow Is Satisfying, Sustainable, and Smart","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUntil 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eSlow Media\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Rauch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197626025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197626023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.20h x 9.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Jennifer Rauch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43945171386623,"sku":"9780197626023","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ffd58b03-e2a4-4bb3-a66c-ed96cca7e011.jpg?v=1681507193","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/slow-media-jennifer-rauch-9780197626023","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}