Chris Lindgren
Asst Professor
he/him/his
Assistant Professor of Technical Communication
Department of English
Tompkins Hall 131D
Bio
Interests
- critical data studies
- Indigenous Data Sovereignty
- data processing, analysis, and visualization
- visual rhetoric
- coding literacy
- designing communication technologies for justice
About
Chris A. Lindgren studies computer coding and data-driven work as rhetorical communication. His research interests include the rhetorical actions made during the process of data science work and developing new approaches to community-engaged and self-determined Indigenous Data Sovereignty.
He is a partner on The Rematriation Project—a project dedicated to empowering Indigenous communities’ rights to their own data, knowledges, and practices. He is also Founder of the SIG on the Writing and Rhetoric of Code and an Advisory Board Member of the SIG on Communication Design.
Some of his past research has studied how capitalistic rhetoric has impacted calls for coding as the new mass literacy and using novel methods to study the communication design of digital platforms as political infrastructure. Overall, his research, teaching, and community-outreach projects take up a design justice approach to digital communication.
Selected Publications
- (2024). Technical communication’s fight against extractive large language modeling by applying FAIR and CARE principles of data. Journal of Business and Technical Communication (forthcoming Jan. 2025, 39.1).
- (2024). A Stasis Network Methodology to Reckon with the Rhetorical Process of Data: How a Data Team Qualified Meaning and Practices. Technical Communication Quarterly.
- (2023). Decolonizing Community-engaged Research: Designing CER with Cultural Humility as a Foundational Value. Communication Design Quarterly.
- (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.
- (2021). Writing With Data: A Study of Coding on a Data-Journalism Team. Written Communication.
- (2021). Facts Upon Delivery: What Is Rhetorical About Visualized Models?. Journal of Business and Technical Communication.
Education
Ph.D. Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication University of Minnesota 2017
M.A. Composition Studies North Dakota State University 2012
B.A. English Studies North Dakota State University 2004
Publications
- A Stasis Network Methodology to Reckon with the Rhetorical Process of Data: How a Data Team Qualified Meaning and Practices , Technical Communication Quarterly (2024)
- Decolonizing Community-Engaged Research: Designing CER with Cultural Humility as a Foundational Value , Communication Design Quarterly (2023)
- Show Your Work! Three Qualitative Methodologies to Revise and Reimagine Quantitative Work as Communication Design , (2023)
- lingeringcode/askcomm: askcomm , (2023)
- lingeringcode/evekeys: initial release , (2023)
- lingeringcode/urlcounter: initial release , (2023)
- Addendum to [Paper Mill] RhetCompromised: Applicability to Canada , Rhet Ops: Rhetoric and Information Warfare (2022)
- Building an Infrastructural Praxis: Understanding Twitter’s Embeddedness in the U.S.-Mexico Border , Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric (2022)
- Extended Abstract: UX in/as political renegotiation , IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (2022)
- “Hello, Is This the Writing Center?”: Illicit Paper Mill Activity and the Compromised Recomposition of College and University Websites , Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy (2022)