Slow Media
Sensibility, Process, and Technology
Published on 15. February 2025
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-6669-5911-6 (ISBN)
Description
This edited volume focuses on slow media, an approach that fosters intentional and thoughtful engagement with media of all forms. Contributors explore our individual and community relations with analog and digital media by critiquing current power structures underpinning contemporary media sensibilities, processes, and technologies. Through these critiques, the authors pose crucial questions surrounding how to slow down and be intentional within the landscape of accelerated media technology innovation and ubiquity. Building on existing media studies theory, the essays in this volume explore case studies of the intersections between analog and digital media, share insights from personal slow media projects, and propose useful methods for ethical and thoughtful media practices for both producers and audiences. Ultimately, this volume prompts readers to contemplate and reconsider the role of media technologies in contemporary life.
Reviews / Votes
The rock band Savages tell us: 'If you are focused you are harder to reach/if you are distracted you available'. They reflect the fact that the temporal arena of slowness/acceleration is a key digital frontline in politics, economy, culture and society. We need to understand what's at stake, and Mary P. Erikson's edited collection is a much-needed jolt to our increasingly distracted state. This volume shows us how we can be harder to reach and become more focused on what's important to us in a platform-controlled ideology that is consumed with speed and finding new ways to addict us to it. * Robert Hassan, Professor of Media and Communications, The University of Melbourne, Australia *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 BW Illustration, 6 BW Photos
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
634 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6669-5911-6 (9781666959116)
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Slow Media
Sensibility, Process, and Technology
E-Book
03/2025
1st Edition
Lexington Books
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Slow Media
Sensibility, Process, and Technology
E-Book
12/2024
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Persons
Mary P. Erickson is senior instructor in the Department of Communication Studies at Western Washington University.
Content
Chapter One: Archetype, Cliche, and Slow Media: Probing the Relationship Between Old/New and Fast/Slow
Erik Gustafson
Chapter Two: Slow Media and the Intentional Re-mystification of Twenty-First Century Life
Benjamin Cline
Chapter Three: Hybrid Space and the Multiplicity of Place: The Challenge Wireless Mobile Technology Poses to Mindfulness
Susan A. Sci
Chapter Four: Slow Media, Slow Time, and Slow Pedagogy in the Zeitgeist and Context of Multiple Pandemics
Judy Battaglia
Chapter Five: Slow Media, Slow Design: An Interconnected Pedagogy
Ryan McCullough and Sarah Davis
Chapter Six: Slow Media and Older Adults: A Contemplative Aging Paradigm
Elizabeth Jones
Chapter Seven: One Story at a Time: StoryCorps and the Line between Slow and Commodified Listening
Ryan Louis
Chapter Eight: A Personal Pandemic Archive: Slow Media Quality and Mindfulness
Lawrence Mullen
Chapter Nine: Unhurried Dialogue: Letter Writing, Nostalgia, and the Art of Slow Connection
Jennifer L. Adams
Chapter Ten: Presbyterian Churches in Canada Going Online During the COVID-19 Shutdown:
A Case Study in Slow and Not-So-Slow Media
Peter Bush
Chapter Eleven: Road Ideation: The Temporal-Spatial Mediation of Billboards
Derek Moscato
Chapter Twelve: Archiving Loss: Circulation and Preservation in the Age of Computational Film
Eric Hahn
Erik Gustafson
Chapter Two: Slow Media and the Intentional Re-mystification of Twenty-First Century Life
Benjamin Cline
Chapter Three: Hybrid Space and the Multiplicity of Place: The Challenge Wireless Mobile Technology Poses to Mindfulness
Susan A. Sci
Chapter Four: Slow Media, Slow Time, and Slow Pedagogy in the Zeitgeist and Context of Multiple Pandemics
Judy Battaglia
Chapter Five: Slow Media, Slow Design: An Interconnected Pedagogy
Ryan McCullough and Sarah Davis
Chapter Six: Slow Media and Older Adults: A Contemplative Aging Paradigm
Elizabeth Jones
Chapter Seven: One Story at a Time: StoryCorps and the Line between Slow and Commodified Listening
Ryan Louis
Chapter Eight: A Personal Pandemic Archive: Slow Media Quality and Mindfulness
Lawrence Mullen
Chapter Nine: Unhurried Dialogue: Letter Writing, Nostalgia, and the Art of Slow Connection
Jennifer L. Adams
Chapter Ten: Presbyterian Churches in Canada Going Online During the COVID-19 Shutdown:
A Case Study in Slow and Not-So-Slow Media
Peter Bush
Chapter Eleven: Road Ideation: The Temporal-Spatial Mediation of Billboards
Derek Moscato
Chapter Twelve: Archiving Loss: Circulation and Preservation in the Age of Computational Film
Eric Hahn