[ecrea] New book: Slow Media: Why Slow is Satisfying, Sustainable and Smart

    _Jennifer Rauch, /Slow Media://Why Slow is Satisfying, Sustainable,
    and Smart/ (New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2018) _

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-- ," 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.


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