TY - JOUR
T1 - Users’ Perspectives About the Potential Usefulness of Online Storylines to Communicate River Research to a Multi-disciplinary Audience
AU - Cortes Arevalo, Vivian Juliette
AU - Verbrugge, Laura Nicoline Halley
AU - den Haan, Robert-Jan
AU - Baart, Fedor
AU - van der Voort, Mascha C.
AU - Hulscher, Suzanne J.M.H.
N1 - Taylor & Francis deal
PY - 2019/10/3
Y1 - 2019/10/3
N2 - Effective communication practices are needed to support adaptive, collaborative and integrative environmental management. We propose the use of online storylines to communicate scientific outcomes in a way that is captivating, easily understood and accessible. Based on 20 interviews, we identified important attributes for the storyline content, structure and user interaction. We designed a storyline example about stakeholders’ perceptions of a river management intervention with consequences on the landscape. The intended audience consists of multi-disciplinary researchers and practitioners that could consider or apply research solutions outside their field of expertise in river management. We introduced the example in a workshop with 14 participants from research and practice. Our findings highlight the importance of including narrative elements via images, interactive figures and timelines to illustrate the research context. Moreover, storylines should explicitly state benefits as well as the limitations of the river research and include a glossary to clarify specific terms.
AB - Effective communication practices are needed to support adaptive, collaborative and integrative environmental management. We propose the use of online storylines to communicate scientific outcomes in a way that is captivating, easily understood and accessible. Based on 20 interviews, we identified important attributes for the storyline content, structure and user interaction. We designed a storyline example about stakeholders’ perceptions of a river management intervention with consequences on the landscape. The intended audience consists of multi-disciplinary researchers and practitioners that could consider or apply research solutions outside their field of expertise in river management. We introduced the example in a workshop with 14 participants from research and practice. Our findings highlight the importance of including narrative elements via images, interactive figures and timelines to illustrate the research context. Moreover, storylines should explicitly state benefits as well as the limitations of the river research and include a glossary to clarify specific terms.
KW - UT-Hybrid-D
KW - narrative elements
KW - river management
KW - user-centered design
KW - Multi-disciplinary communication
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85051989311&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17524032.2018.1504098
DO - 10.1080/17524032.2018.1504098
M3 - Article
VL - 13
SP - 909
EP - 925
JO - Environmental Communication
JF - Environmental Communication
SN - 1752-4032
IS - 7
ER -