Chris Lindgren, Ph.D.

Chris Lindgren, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Technical Communication and Data Visualization

Virginia Tech

About Me

Hello! I study computer coding and data-driven work as rhetorical forms of communication. I’m invested in questions like How are coding and data work rhetorical practices?, How do coding and data work perpetuate or create new societal problems?, and How can we help technical professionals find value in a humanities perspective on their practices?

Some of my past research has studied how capitalistic rhetoric has impacted calls for coding as the new mass literacy of our time. Overall, my research, teaching, and community-outreach projects take up a design justice approach to digital communication.

Interests
  • critical code and data studies
  • data processing, analysis, and visualization
  • visual rhetoric
  • coding literacy
  • designing communication for justice

Projects

*
All Social Justice Content Design Computational Rhetoric
Last updated on 2023
SIGCON Wordpress Theme
SIGCON Wordpress Theme

Custom Wordpress theme for the international ACM SIGDOC conference.

Last updated on 2022
The Rematriation Project
The Rematriation Project

The Rematriation Project’s goal is to build a new model of ethical Inuit-led research and digital archiving methodology.

Last updated on 2023
Tracking White Supremacist Citational Politics (prototype)
Tracking White Supremacist Citational Politics (prototype)

Prototype data dashboard for the broader Studies in Writing and Rhetoric (SWR) Citational Politics project. We will combine demographic data with citational data to help our discipline identify racist, sexist, and gender-based problems within our scholarship.

Last updated on 2022
Dark-Pink Materials Page Theme
Dark-Pink Materials Page Theme

Flexible dark page theme inspired by dark pink! Uses grid areas, writing-modes, and color and typography.

Last updated on 2022
LimeKey Mountain Poster Theme
LimeKey Mountain Poster Theme

Playful poster theme inspired by boutique keyboards. Uses grid areas, borders, and color and typography.

Last updated on 2022
Red-Checkered Page Theme
Red-Checkered Page Theme

Flexible page theme inspired by Checkers! Uses grid areas, background-image placement, and color and typography.

Last updated on 2022
Sunflower Page Theme
Sunflower Page Theme

Flexible page theme inspired by my favorite flower. Uses grid areas, background-image placement, and color and typography.

Last updated on 2022
askcomm
askcomm

Python 3.x module with search patterns for event-based, community-detected twitter data.

Code Docs
Last updated on 2022
urlcounter
urlcounter

Python 3.x module that tallies shared URLs within an event-based corpus.

Code Docs
Last updated on 2023
Rhetmap.org Job Dashboard Map (2012 - 2019)
Rhetmap.org Job Dashboard Map (2012 - 2019)

Data dashboard for the field per year, weeks 1-17. I work in coordination with Jim Ridolfo’s data collection efforts. Made with Tableau.

Website
Last updated on 2022
Rhetmap.org Job Locations Map (2012 - 2019)
Rhetmap.org Job Locations Map (2012 - 2019)

Viewable map of job locations, based on the Rhetmap.org data.

Website

All Publications

Quickly discover relevant content by filtering publications.
Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq, Chris Lindgren, Ph.D., Corina Kramer (2023). Decolonizing Community-engaged Research: Designing CER with Cultural Humility as a Foundational Value. Decolonizing Community-engaged Research: Designing CER with Cultural Humility as a Foundational Value. Communication Design Quarterly, 11.3. Special Issue on Community-Engaged Research.

TBA

Chris Lindgren, Ph.D., Maggie Fernandes (2022). Building an Infrastructural Praxis: Understanding Twitter's embeddedness in the U.S.-Mexico Border. Building an Infrastructural Praxis: Understanding Twitter’s Embeddedness in the U.S.-Mexico Border. Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric. Special Issue: Language, Access, and Power in Technical Communication.

PDF Article

Jim Ridolfo, William Hart-Davidson, Chris Lindgren, Ph.D. (2021). "Hello, Is This the Writing Center?": Illicit Paper Mill Activity and the Compromised Recomposition of College and University Websites. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.

Open-Access Article

Chris Lindgren, Ph.D. (2021). Writing With Data: A Study of Coding on a Data-Journalism Team. In Written Communication.

PDF Cite DOI

Chris Lindgren, Ph.D. (2021). Facts Upon Delivery: What Is Rhetorical About Visualized Models?. In Journal of Business and Technical Communication.

PDF Cite DOI

Jim Ridolfo, Chris Lindgren, Ph.D. (2020). Rhetmap.org: Visualizing Collaboration through Six Years of Field Data. In Kairos.

Cite Github Repo

Sweta Baniya, Les Hutchinson, Ashanka Kumari, Kyle Larson, Chris Lindgren, Ph.D. (2019). Representing Diversity in Digital Research: Digital Feminist Ethics and Resisting Dominant Normatives. In Proceedings of the Annual Computers & Writing Conference, 2018.

PDF Collection

Kevin Brooks, Chris Lindgren, Ph.D., Matthew Warner (2015). Using Digital Labs to Build Smarter Computing Cultures. In Rhetoric and Digital Humanities.

PDF Collection

Byron Hawk, Chris Lindgren, Ph.D., Andrew Mara (2015). Utopian Laptop Initiatives: From Technological Deism to Object-Oriented Rhetoric. In Writing Posthumanism, Posthuman Writing.

Collection

Kevin Brooks, Chris Lindgren, Ph.D. (2015). Responding to the Coding Crisis: From Code Year to Computational Literacy. In Strategic Discourse: The Politics of (New) Literacy Crises.

Chapter

Skills

Python

Proficiency with specialization in data processing and analysis

Data Visualization

Proficiency across data visualization techniques, ranging in environments such as Google Sheets, Observable Notebooks, and Python

Web Accessibility

Proficiency in HTML5/ARIA web accessibility techniques

Content Design and Strategy

Proficiency in auditing, assessing, and developing web content strategies for large organizations

Popular Topics

Academic border rhetorics case study circulation studies citational politics code studies code year coding literacy computational literacy computational rhetoric content design contract cheating data processing data visualization hashtag activism infrastructure job market mixed methods python module social justice

Contact

  • lindgren@vt.edu
  • 207 Shanks Hall, 181 Turner Street NW, Blacksburg, VA 24060
  • Enter Shanks Hall and take the stairs to Office 207 on Floor 2
  • DM Me