Jennifer Rauch
Purveyor of Fine Erudition in Journalism, Media & Communication
A former reporter for an alternative weekly paper, I like to keep up with the news in Willamette Week.

A former reporter for an alternative weekly paper, I like to keep up with the news in Willamette Week.

Public Writing

  • Thrive Global, “The Pleasures of Digital Denial” link

  • Medium, “Five Reasons to Kick Smartphones out of School” — with audio narration link

  • Medium, “Why I Heart Slow Media (and So Can You)” — with audio narration link

  • OUPblog, “How Disconnecting from Digital Pressures Can Boost Learning” link

  • Slow Media blog, “Suitably Slow: My Nine-Year Path to Slow Media” link

  • Medium, “Living Offline: Artifacts of Life Before the Smartphone” — with audio narration link

  • Slow Learning: A Path to a Meaningful and Mindful Future of Learning. International Training Center of the International Labor Organization (ITC-ILO), December 2022, ““Ecological Lessons You Can, and Can’t, Learn from Books"”

Academic Writing

  • “Slow Media Practices and Lifeworld Perceptions: The Eco-Cultural Effects of Mindful Experiences with and without Media,” chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies, ed. Antonio Lopez, Kiu-Wai Chu, Alanda Chang, Adrian Ivakhiv, Stephen Rust, and Miriam Tola , Routledge , 2023 link

  • “The Contexts and Consequences of Hybridity for Alternative Media Audiences,” Digital Journalism 11 no. 5 , 2023 link

  • “Gli Slow Media come Media Alternativi Resistenza Culturale Attraverso la Stampa ,” chapter in ,” in Francesco Ciaponi (ed.), Contesto: Rivista di Editoria Indipendente e Scienze del Testo, Numero 3, Anno 2 , Edizioni del Frisco , 2022 link

  • “Zines and Communication,” entry in Oxford Bibliographies in Communication, ed. Patricia Moy , Oxford University Press , 2021 link

  • “Right-Wing Audiences for Alternative Media: Comparing progressive and conservative attitudes towards journalism,” chapter in Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics: Activist Nation Rising, ed. Joshua Atkinson and Linda Jean Kenix , Rowman & Littlefield , 2019 link

For a complete list of my academic articles and book chapters, see my CV and my profile at Google Scholar.