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<p>Data visualisation – in the forms of graphs, charts, and maps – represents a text type growing in prevalence and impact in many cultural domains; education, journalism, business, PR, and more. Research on data visualisation reception is scarce, particularly that related to interactive and dynamic forms of data visualisation in digital media. Taking an approach inspired by grounded theory, in this article I investigate the ways in which young students interact with data visualisations found in digital news media. Combining observations from reading sessions with ten in-depth interviews, I investigate how the informants read, interpreted, and responded emotionally to data visualisations including visual metaphors, interactivity, and animation.</p>
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Data visualisation – in the forms of graphs, charts, and maps – represents a text type growing in prevalence and impact in many cultural domains; education, journalism, business, PR, and more. Research on data visualisation reception is scarce, particularly that related to interactive and dynamic forms of data visualisation in digital media. Taking an approach inspired by grounded theory, in this article I investigate the ways in which young students interact with data visualisations found in digital news media. Combining observations from reading sessions with ten in-depth interviews, I investigate how the informants read, interpreted, and responded emotionally to data visualisations including visual metaphors, interactivity, and animation.

From Decoding a Graph to Processing a Multimodal Message: Interacting with data visualisation in the news media

Nordicom Review

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Data visualisation – in the forms of graphs, charts, and maps – represents a text type growing in prevalence and impact in many cultural domains; education,...

From Decoding a Graph to Processing a Multimodal Message: Interacting with data visualisation in the news media

Published Online: Feb 18, 2020

Page range: 33 - 50

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2020-0004

Keywords
data visualisation, media literacy, multimodality, media reception, news media

© 2020 Martin Engebretsen, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

From Decoding a Graph to Processing a Multimodal Message: Interacting with data visualisation in the news media

Published Online: Feb 18, 2020

Page range: 33 - 50

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2020-0004

Keywordsdata visualisation, media literacy, multimodality, media reception, news media

© 2020 Martin Engebretsen, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
data visualisation, media literacy, multimodality, media reception, news media