{"id":12700,"date":"2025-03-03T09:41:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T15:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/?p=12700"},"modified":"2025-03-03T09:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T15:41:43","slug":"slow-digest-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/slow-digest-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Digest: Television"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week\u2019s edition of\u00a0<\/em>Slow Digest\u00a0was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I came across slow TV during the fall semester of 2023 while in the midst of studying for my preliminary exams. While the soothing sound of smooth brown noise routinely quiets my mind, I fell in love with videos of scenic plane, train, and automobile rides that lasted about 8-12 hours at a time. Something about the monotony of an uneventful, stress-free journey, beginning to end, was relaxing and helped me concentrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slow TV was popularized by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) in the 2000s when it aired a broadcast of a 7-hour train journey from Bergen to Oslo. This genre of television is pure simplicity and a counterpoint to the fast-paced and often dramatic narratives of popular television series. It presents real-time, unedited, or minimally edited footage of everyday or scenic experiences. It\u2019s extremely slow-paced, often hours or days long, focusing on observation rather than storytelling. There is no narrative to this type of media, and it does not require active engagement to enjoy it. Instead, much of Slow TV is designed for relaxation, mindfulness, background ambiance, and, in my case, preparing for one\u2019s preliminary exams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From CBS Sunday Morning (05\/07\/2017): “Norway’s Fascinating Slow TV”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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