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.
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