Carolyn S Fish
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340413 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn S Fish |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn S |
| FAMILY NAME | Fish |
| SIGNATURE | FISH C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2366-5035 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Contextualizing cartography in a changing climate
Cartography: The Translational Science of Maps and Mapping
Cartography plays a central role in how society represents, comes to know, and moves through the world. Wars have been fought over lines on the maps cartographers draw, but so, too, have community organizers as cartographers used maps to reclaim land. As such, cartography and the maps cartographers create, critique, and research can be understood as claims on the world—what it is and what it might be; cartography is the means of telling stories a…
Narrative transportation and emotional responses to storytelling maps
The Association Between Street Construction Projects and Community Violence in New York City
Extreme Heat and Firearm Violence in New York City Public Housing: The Mitigating Role of Air Conditioning
Narrative Transportation and the Potential for Cartographers to Create Storytelling Maps That Transport Their Readers
Narrative transportation – the extent to which a reader is drawn into a story – is a new term for cartographers borrowed from social psychology. Transporting stories lead readers to develop strong emotions and motivations about the content, physically and psychologically immerse themselves, and take on beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours implied in the story. In this article, the authors review the literature on narrative transportation to provide…
Mapping in an Echo Chamber: How Cartographic Silence Frames Conservative Media's Climate Change Denial
Maps are a key way through which the science of climate change is communicated, but as partisan divides lead to new ideologically driven consumption patterns of news sources, it is important to understand how the media uses maps across the political spectrum. In this study, we investigate how maps have been incorporated into climate change communication in conservative media. Our research has two major findings. First, compared to mainstream medi…
Climate change communication beyond the digital divide: Exploring cartography’s role and privilege in climate action
Despite widespread acceptance amongst researchers, climate change and responses to it remain a socially and politically debated topic. Within cartography and cognate disciplines, this has often been construed as an issue of communication: maps are tools for communication and better maps will lead to greater understanding of and responses to climate change. While existing research has shown some support for the efficacy of such approaches, this ar…
Storytelling for Making Cartographic Design Decisions for Climate Change Communication in the United States
Recent research in cartography has described how maps can tell stories; however, little research has empirically evaluated how storytelling can guide how map design decisions are made. I argue that storytelling allows cartographers to decide on basic map design elements by narrowing the focus of a map. First, cartographers decide on the driving story. The story is then used as a guide for every design decision, from what data to search for and us…
Cartographic content analysis of compelling climate change communication
Maps are a key way to communicate climate change. The goal of these maps is to make climate change relatable, tangible, and understandable. However, little research has assessed the content of these maps and the aspects of these maps which attract readers, reduce complexity, and make climate change tangible. One way to evaluate maps of climate change is through the concept of vividness, a term from the communication literature. This article exami…
Climate vulnerability mapping: A systematic review and future prospects
Maps synthesizing climate, biophysical and socioeconomic data have become part of the standard tool‐kit for communicating the risks of climate change to society. Vulnerability maps are used to direct attention to geographic areas where impacts on society are expected to be greatest and that may therefore require adaptation interventions. Under the Green Climate Fund and other bilateral climate adaptation funding mechanisms, donors are investing b…
Change Blindness in Animated Choropleth Maps: An Empirical Study
Animated choropleth maps enable cartographers to visualize time-series data in a way that congruently depicts change over time. However, users have difficulty apprehending information encoded within these displays, and often fail to detect important changes between adjacent scenes. Failures of visual experience, such as change blindness, threaten the effectiveness of dynamic geovisual displays, in which several important changes can occur simulta…
Cartographic content analysis of compelling climate change communication
Maps are a key way to communicate climate change. The goal of these maps is to make climate change relatable, tangible, and understandable. However, little research has assessed the content of these maps and the aspects of these maps which attract readers, reduce complexity, and make climate change tangible. One way to evaluate maps of climate change is through the concept of vividness, a term from the communication literature. This article exami…
Change Blindness in Animated Choropleth Maps: An Empirical Study
Animated choropleth maps enable cartographers to visualize time-series data in a way that congruently depicts change over time. However, users have difficulty apprehending information encoded within these displays, and often fail to detect important changes between adjacent scenes. Failures of visual experience, such as change blindness, threaten the effectiveness of dynamic geovisual displays, in which several important changes can occur simulta…
Mapping in an Echo Chamber: How Cartographic Silence Frames Conservative Media's Climate Change Denial
Maps are a key way through which the science of climate change is communicated, but as partisan divides lead to new ideologically driven consumption patterns of news sources, it is important to understand how the media uses maps across the political spectrum. In this study, we investigate how maps have been incorporated into climate change communication in conservative media. Our research has two major findings. First, compared to mainstream medi…
Change Blindness in Animated Choropleth Maps: An Empirical Study
Animated choropleth maps enable cartographers to visualize time-series data in a way that congruently depicts change over time. However, users have difficulty apprehending information encoded within these displays, and often fail to detect important changes between adjacent scenes. Failures of visual experience, such as change blindness, threaten the effectiveness of dynamic geovisual displays, in which several important changes can occur simulta…
Climate vulnerability mapping: A systematic review and future prospects
Maps synthesizing climate, biophysical and socioeconomic data have become part of the standard tool‐kit for communicating the risks of climate change to society. Vulnerability maps are used to direct attention to geographic areas where impacts on society are expected to be greatest and that may therefore require adaptation interventions. Under the Green Climate Fund and other bilateral climate adaptation funding mechanisms, donors are investing b…
Storytelling for Making Cartographic Design Decisions for Climate Change Communication in the United States
Recent research in cartography has described how maps can tell stories; however, little research has empirically evaluated how storytelling can guide how map design decisions are made. I argue that storytelling allows cartographers to decide on basic map design elements by narrowing the focus of a map. First, cartographers decide on the driving story. The story is then used as a guide for every design decision, from what data to search for and us…
Cartographic content analysis of compelling climate change communication
Maps are a key way to communicate climate change. The goal of these maps is to make climate change relatable, tangible, and understandable. However, little research has assessed the content of these maps and the aspects of these maps which attract readers, reduce complexity, and make climate change tangible. One way to evaluate maps of climate change is through the concept of vividness, a term from the communication literature. This article exami…
Climate change communication beyond the digital divide: Exploring cartography’s role and privilege in climate action
Despite widespread acceptance amongst researchers, climate change and responses to it remain a socially and politically debated topic. Within cartography and cognate disciplines, this has often been construed as an issue of communication: maps are tools for communication and better maps will lead to greater understanding of and responses to climate change. While existing research has shown some support for the efficacy of such approaches, this ar…
Mapping in an Echo Chamber: How Cartographic Silence Frames Conservative Media's Climate Change Denial
Maps are a key way through which the science of climate change is communicated, but as partisan divides lead to new ideologically driven consumption patterns of news sources, it is important to understand how the media uses maps across the political spectrum. In this study, we investigate how maps have been incorporated into climate change communication in conservative media. Our research has two major findings. First, compared to mainstream medi…
Narrative transportation and emotional responses to storytelling maps
The Association Between Street Construction Projects and Community Violence in New York City
Extreme Heat and Firearm Violence in New York City Public Housing: The Mitigating Role of Air Conditioning
Narrative Transportation and the Potential for Cartographers to Create Storytelling Maps That Transport Their Readers
Narrative transportation – the extent to which a reader is drawn into a story – is a new term for cartographers borrowed from social psychology. Transporting stories lead readers to develop strong emotions and motivations about the content, physically and psychologically immerse themselves, and take on beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours implied in the story. In this article, the authors review the literature on narrative transportation to provide…
Contextualizing cartography in a changing climate
Cartography: The Translational Science of Maps and Mapping
Cartography plays a central role in how society represents, comes to know, and moves through the world. Wars have been fought over lines on the maps cartographers draw, but so, too, have community organizers as cartographers used maps to reclaim land. As such, cartography and the maps cartographers create, critique, and research can be understood as claims on the world—what it is and what it might be; cartography is the means of telling stories a…
Geography (9 works) · Geographic Information Systems Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Cartography (4 works) · Climate change (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Storytelling (4 works) · Art (3 works)