Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Mary Erickson ,  Jennifer L. Adams ,  Judy Battaglia ,  Peter Bush
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Weight:   0.535kg
ISBN:  

9781666959116

ISBN 10:   1666959111
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   15 February 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter One: Archetype, Cliché, 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

Reviews

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 *

Author Information

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

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