Slow Media : Sensibility, Process, and Technology

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.

Peter Bush is vice-president, International Federation of Translators, former Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation.

Mary P. Erickson is senior instructor in the Department of Communication Studies at Western Washington University.

Erik Gustafson is adjunct professor at Lake Michigan College and senior pastor at Lake Michigan Christian Center.

Derek Moscato is Professor of Journalism at Western Washington University.