Our research approaches climate communication with one of the newer multi-modal forms and with an under-examined study on students. An interactive documentary titled This Is Climate Change (2018) was analyzed as an example of “eco-culture” and read by the university students at Siegen University in Germany from the perspective of “eco-affects”. The students engaged with this chosen documentary series mainly based on whether interactivity leads to a more engaged or well-informed audience. The research also functions as a “climate literacy / climate change literacy”. Thus, the article hopes to contribute to engaged communication scholarship on environ­mental justice and transfor­mative communication scholarship.

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Gencel Bek, Mine (2025): “Engaging Climate Crisis Through an Immersive Documentary”, in: Moment Dergi 12 (1), p. 211–227. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17572/mj2025.1.211-227.