Full 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.
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
