Information Visualization & Data Journalism
Francesca Morini is an associated researcher at the UCLAB. She holds a PhD in Media and Communication Studies from the School of Culture and Education at Södertörn University in Sweden.
From Shock to Shift
Visual and Dynamic Arrangements of Narratives
Visualization and Communication of Climate Change Scenarios
We propose critical interactivity as a concept to study and design the dynamic and transitory aspects of data visualizations. Theoretically, interactivity is often described as the means to support analytical tasks, while in practice, it encompasses …
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 …
We present a methodology for making sense of the communicative role of data visualizations in journalistic storytelling and share findings from surveying water-related data stories. Data stories are a genre of long-form journalism that integrate …
This article investigates data journalism epistemology through Michel Foucault’s definition of power. The growing demand for data-savvy reporters with computational skills has been proven to shift the newsrooms’ culture in media companies across the …
Journalism has become more data-driven and inherently visual in recent years. Photographs, illustrations, infographics, data visualizations, and general images help convey complex topics to a wide audience. The way that visual artifacts influence …
As data are becoming increasingly central to journalistic practice, a number of technology-driven approaches are emerging among data journalists. This article focuses on sensor journalism, which brings new practical and ethical concerns to …
Francesca Morini attends IEEE VIS 2023 in Melbourne to share a provocation »Entangling exploration and narration: Interdisciplinary and cross-domain research on visualizing humanities data« at the VIS4DH workshop and present the full paper »From shock to shift: Data visualization for constructive climate journalism«.
Francesca Morini is a speaker at this year’s Visualizing Knowledge conference at Aalto University, Finland. She will talk about data visualization and constructive data journalism, presenting insights from her doctoral research and beyond. journalism.
We participate in EuroVis 2023 in Leipzig with two contributions: Mark-Jan Bludau presents a paper about » Unfolding Edges« joint work with Marian Dörk & Christian Tominski and Manuela Garretón presents » Data stories of water« joint work with Francesca Morini, Daniela Paz Moyano, Gianna-Carina Grün, Denis Parra & Marian Dörk.
Anna Eschenbacher, Johanna Hartmann, and Francesca Morini participate in the NIAM 2023 conference in Berlin to present their work in progress paper »FROM SHOCK TO SHIFT – Beteiligung von Zeitungsleser*innen in partizipativen, mehrkanaligen Datenvisualisierungen von Klimazukünften«.
Anna Eschenbacher, Johanna Hartmann, and Francesca Morini present the poster on their on-going research »From shock to shift: Engaging newspaper readers in participatory, multi-channel data visualizations of climate futures« at the ZeM graduate conference un:real spaces of interaction, in Potsdam.
Francesca Morini participates in the ECREA 2022 conference in Aarhus to present her paper » Data journalism as “terra incognita”: newcomers’ tensions in shifting towards data journalism epistemology«.
Francesca Morini and Marian Dörk participate in the DH2022 conference and co-present a panel on »Temporal Topologies: Inflecting the telling and the told of historical narratives« together with Johanna Drucker (UCLA), Nathaniel LaCelle-Peterson (MPIWG), Jonas Rinderlin (HKW), Elton Barker (OU), Christoph Rosol (MPIWG & HKW) and Dirk Wintergrün (MPIWG/Klassik Stiftung Weimar).
Francesca Morini attends the Dialogues in Data Power conference in Bremen and presents »Deliberate Data: A Critical Approach to Urban Data Collection for Visualization Practitioners« joint work with Tobias Kauer, Benjamin Bach and Marian Dörk.
Francesca Morini hosts a virtual workshop on journalistic authorship and temporal-relational deep tagging of newsworthy events at Computation + Journalism 2022.
Francesca Morini gives a virtual talk on autoethnography and action research as methods to research data journalism within newsrooms at the University of Aarhus’ Infrastructures of Publics Workshop.
We are preparing the »Visualizing Open Access Summer School« in cooperation with the Open-Access-Büro Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin.
If you are curious about communicating climate change scenarios with data visualization, please join us for the SENSES Outreach Event being held online on 15 January at 2pm (CET).
Vis for Future is an international competition calling for state-of-the-art visualizations that make sense of the climate crisis and inform the fight for climate justice.
Students learn to identify deceptive interface elements and patterns. We will take interfaces, un-design them, and put them back together to contextualize their influence on us. Using critical design, data visualization and creative coding we design essays that expose these issues and explain them.
Self-organized reading seminar on information visualization. Students pick recent papers, discuss reflections, and write a survey paper, applying infovis insights to data storytelling, generative art, science communication, digital humanities, critical design.
The summer school focusses on visualizing open access in Germany (Open Access Bundesländer-Atlas) and beyond to raise awareness of this transformation in academic publishing.
Sensors are more and more pervasive in our everyday life. What happens if we use them to monitor subjective experiences? “Data Talks / Data Walks” is a hybrid exercise combining journalism, data visualization and coding.