Slow Media

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

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.

• Chapter One: Archetype, Cliché, and Slow Media: Probing the Relationship Between Old/New and Fast/SlowErik GustafsonChapter Two: Slow Media and the Intentional Re-mystification of Twenty-First Century LifeBenjamin ClineChapter Three: Hybrid Space and the Multiplicity of Place: The Challenge Wireless Mobile Technology Poses to MindfulnessSusan A. SciChapter Four: Slow Media, Slow Time, and Slow Pedagogy in the Zeitgeist and Context of Multiple PandemicsJudy BattagliaChapter Five: Slow Media, Slow Design: An Interconnected PedagogyRyan McCullough and Sarah DavisChapter Six: Slow Media and Older Adults: A Contemplative Aging ParadigmElizabeth JonesChapter Seven: One Story at a Time: StoryCorps and the Line between Slow and Commodified ListeningRyan LouisChapter Eight: A Personal Pandemic Archive: Slow Media Quality and MindfulnessLawrence MullenChapter Nine: Unhurried Dialogue: Letter Writing, Nostalgia, and the Art of Slow ConnectionJennifer L. AdamsChapter Ten: Presbyterian Churches in Canada Going Online During the COVID-19 Shutdown:A Case Study in Slow and Not-So-Slow MediaPeter BushChapter Eleven: Road Ideation: The Temporal-Spatial Mediation of BillboardsDerek MoscatoChapter Twelve: Archiving Loss: Circulation and Preservation in the Age of Computational FilmEric Hahn