Browsing by Subject "programming"

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    Arts Organizations and Their Impact on Adverse Childhood Experiences
    (2017-05) Clarke, Kristine
    The following three questions will be examined through this study. First, what role do arts organizations play in relation to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)? Second, do art organizations make any impact on individuals who have experienced ACEs? Third, do these organizations create this impact knowingly or unknowingly? Through examining six organizations it appears that arts organizations serve as efficient supplemental tools in helping individuals suffering from side effects of ACEs. By combining organizational efforts around mental health, rehabilitation, and social work with those of arts organizations, individuals are able to find a pathway or alternative communication method to expressing their emotions, fears, and demons that they have been trying to keep hidden. The research has also shown that art organizations are helping people confronting ACEs without knowing that the programming is indeed helping individuals facing ACEs. Through examining these questions the recommendation from this paper is for mental health, rehabilitation, and social work organizations to acknowledge how useful the arts can be for their patients and clients, and to seek out collaborations with these organizations.
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    Ways with data: Understanding coding as writing
    (2017-05) Lindgren, Chris
    In this dissertation, I report findings from an exploratory case-study about Ray, a web developer, who works on a data-driven news team that finds and tells compelling stories with large sets of data. I implicate this case of Ray's coding on a data team in a writing studies epistemology, which is guided by the following question: What might be learned about coding, if writing researchers explore the consequences of making language material and computational in a digital medium? I begin this study by outlining a theory of materiality of writing through 6 propositions, which serve as a lens to review literature and theories about coding that articulate the characteristics of code as written communication. From there, I describe my grounded-theory approach to this exploratory case and the battery of ethnographic methods used to collect observational data of Ray's coding over the course of approximately 6 months. Next, I present findings from my grounded analysis across 2 chapters. The first findings chapter cultivates a thick description of Ray, his coding, and how his coding is embedded within a broader objective to find stories in and through aggregate information, which I call aggregate narratives. In the second findings chapter, I conduct a more granular analysis of Ray's coding of goal-oriented slices of data from the original data set source -- a coding practice that produces what I term provisional texts. Findings indicate how Ray's coding of the provisional texts, and the texts themselves, provide active epistemic functions to create aggregate narratives. Finally, I conclude by synthesizing findings with the theoretical propositions about the materialities of writing discussed in the first chapter. Overall, Ray's coding and its materialities show how coding is a dynamic, situated cultural practice, which invites future inquiries into and across domains of coding practices.