ARSTM members Shannon Butts and Madison Jones’ 2020 ARSTM@NCA preconference presentation “Deep Mapping for Environmental Communication Design” was recently published open-access in Communication Design Quarterly (CDQ) under the same name. Congratulations to Shannon and Madison!
Announcing the publication, CDQ communications manager Luke Thominet wrote:
This article shares lessons from designing EcoTour (ecotourapp.com), a multimedia environmental advocacy project in a state park, and it describes theoretical, practical, and pedagogical connections between locative media and community-engaged design. While maps can help share information about places, people, and change, they also limit how we visualize complex stories. Using deep mapping, and blending augmented reality with digital maps, EcoTour helps people understand big problems like climate change within the context of their local community. This article demonstrates the rhetorical potential of community-engaged design strategies to affect users, prompt action, and create more democratic discourse in environmental communication.
Read “Deep Mapping for Environmental Communication Design” in full now!