Technical Communication Quarterly Apr 2020

Story/Telling with Data as Distributed Activity

Patrick Danner Misericordia University

Abstract

Based on a workplace ethnography of an organization referred to as the “Metro Data Cooperative,” this article unpacks the multiple approaches to “storytelling with data” held by research subjects. The research suggests that “storytelling” is more than a discursive form that writers break into. Instead, because there are always multiple statistically supportable stories available, researchers and practitioners should understand storytelling as a malleable activity taking place with regard to multiple organizational and technical influences.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2020-04-02
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10.1080/10572252.2019.1660807
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