TY - INPR A1 - Morini, Francesca A1 - Eschenbacher, Anna A1 - Hartmann, Johanna A1 - Dörk, Marian T1 - From shock to shift T2 - IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics N2 - We present a multi-dimensional, multi-level, and multi-channel approach to data visualization for the purpose of constructive climate journalism. Data visualization has assumed a central role in environmental journalism and is often used in data stories to convey the dramatic consequences of climate change and other ecological crises. However, the emphasis on the catastrophic impacts of climate change tends to induce feelings of fear, anxiety, and apathy in readers. Climate mitigation, adaptation, and protection—all highly urgent in the face of the climate crisis—are at risk of being overlooked. These topics are more difficult to communicate as they are hard to convey on varying levels of locality, involve multiple interconnected sectors, and need to be mediated across various channels from the printed newspaper to social media platforms. So far, there has been little research on data visualization to enhance affective engagement with data about climate protection as part of solution-oriented reporting of climate change. With this research we characterize the unique challenges of constructive climate journalism for data visualization and share findings from a research and design study in collaboration with a national newspaper in Germany. Using the affordances and aesthetics of travel postcards, we present Klimakarten, a data journalism project on the progress of climate protection at multiple spatial scales (from national to local), across five key sectors (agriculture, buildings, energy, mobility, and waste), and for print and online use. The findings from quantitative and qualitative analysis of reader feedback confirm our overall approach and suggest implications for future work. KW - Erzählen KW - Journalismus KW - Visualisierung KW - Klimaänderung KW - Meteorologie Y1 - 2023 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-fhpotsdam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3315 SN - 1077-2626 N1 - IEEE VIS 2023 SP - 1 EP - 11 PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) CY - New York ER -