Chris Lindgren, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Technical Communication and Data Visualization
Virginia Tech
Hello!
I study how code and data are a cultural process of communicating, rather than merely an output of blackboxed engineering. I have also studied how capitalistic rhetoric has impacted calls for a new mass literacy of coding. My research, teaching, and community-outreach projects take up a design justice approach to communication.
Interests
- critical code and data studies
- data processing, analysis, and visualization
- visual rhetoric
- coding literacy
- designing communication for justice
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(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.
(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.
(2021).
Writing With Data: A Study of Coding on a Data-Journalism Team.
In Written Communication.
(2021).
Facts Upon Delivery: What Is Rhetorical About Visualized Models?.
In Journal of Business and Technical Communication.
(2020).
Rhetmap.org: Visualizing Collaboration through Six Years of Field Data.
In Kairos.
(2019).
Representing Diversity in Digital Research: Digital Feminist Ethics and Resisting Dominant Normatives.
In Proceedings of the Annual Computers & Writing Conference, 2018.
(2015).
Using Digital Labs to Build Smarter Computing Cultures.
In Rhetoric and Digital Humanities.
(2015).
Utopian Laptop Initiatives: From Technological Deism to Object-Oriented Rhetoric.
In Writing Posthumanism, Posthuman Writing.
(2015).
Responding to the Coding Crisis: From Code Year to Computational Literacy.
In Strategic Discourse: The Politics of (New) Literacy Crises.
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
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
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