Writing With Data: A Study of Coding on a Data-Journalism Team

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dc.contributor.authorLindgren, Chris A.en
dc.contributor.departmentEnglishen
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-18T17:42:12Zen
dc.date.available2021-08-18T17:42:12Zen
dc.date.issued2020-11-11en
dc.date.updated2021-08-18T17:42:09Zen
dc.description.abstractCoding has typically been understood as an engineering practice, where the meaning of code has discrete boundaries as a technology that does precisely what it says. Multidisciplinary code studies reframed this technological perspective by positing code as the latest form of writing, where code’s meaning is always partial and dependent on situational factors. Building out from this premise, this article theorizes coding as a form of writing with data through a qualitative case study of a web developer’s coding on a data-journalism team. I specifically theorize code as a form of intermediary writing to examine how his coding to process and analyze data sets involved the construction and negotiation of emergent problems throughout his coding tasks. Findings suggest how he integrated previous coding experience with an emerging sense of how code helped him write and revise the data. I conclude by considering the implications of these findings and discuss how writing and code studies could develop mutually informative approaches to coding as a situated and relational writing activity.en
dc.description.versionAccepted versionen
dc.format.extentPages 114-162en
dc.format.extent49 page(s)en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifierARTN 0741088320968061 (Article number)en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/0741088320968061en
dc.identifier.eissn1552-8472en
dc.identifier.issn0741-0883en
dc.identifier.issue1en
dc.identifier.orcidLindgren, Chris [0000-0002-4954-7598]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/104667en
dc.identifier.volume38en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGEen
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dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
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dc.subjectSocial Sciencesen
dc.subjectCommunicationen
dc.subjectcode studiesen
dc.subjectsoftware studiesen
dc.subjectcomputational literacyen
dc.subjectmaterialityen
dc.subjectintermediationen
dc.subjectcase studyen
dc.subjectdata processingen
dc.subjectTEXTen
dc.subjectEducationen
dc.subject2001 Communication and Media Studiesen
dc.subject2004 Linguisticsen
dc.titleWriting With Data: A Study of Coding on a Data-Journalism Teamen
dc.title.serialWritten Communicationen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
dc.type.otherArticleen
dc.type.otherJournalen
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