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Jennifer Rauch on Why Slow Media is Satisfying, Sustainable, and Smart
Published 6 years, 7 months ago
Description
Mike talks with Jennifer Rauch, Professor of Journalism and Communication Studies at Long Island University Brooklyn. Dr. Rauch is an award-winning writer, educator and researcher whose work focuses on alternative media, media activism and popular culture. Her latest book is Slow Media: Why 'Slow' Is Satisfying, Sustainable, and Smart.
Topics Mike and Jennifer discuss include:
- Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death
- Jennifer’s extended digital media retreat
- the Slow Food movement’s influence on slow media
- the best slow journalism being produced today
- whether slow media is elitist
- liberal bias in slow media
- why Luddites get a bad rap
- the politics of time
Check out Jennifer’s Slow Media Blog
Jennifer Rauch on Twitter
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