{"product_id":"code-for-what-computer-science-for-storytelling-and-social-justice-9780262047456","title":"Code for What Computer Science for Storytelling","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCoding for a purpose: helping young people combine journalism, data, design, and code to make media that makes a difference.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEducators are urged to teach “code for all”—to make a specialized field accessible for students usually excluded from it. In \u003ci\u003eCode for What?\u003c\/i\u003e Clifford Lee and Elisabeth Soep instead ask the question, “code for what?” What if coding were a justice-driven medium for storytelling rather than a narrow technical skill? What if “democratizing” computer science went beyond the usual one-off workshop and empowered youth to create digital products for social impact? Lee and Soep answer these questions with stories of a diverse group of young people in Oakland, California, who combine journalism, data, design, and code to create media that make a difference.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThese teenage and young adult producers created interactive projects that explored gendered and racialized dress code policies in schools; desig","brand":"MIT Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524681146711,"sku":"9780262047456","price":22.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780262047456.jpg?v=1731857725","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/code-for-what-computer-science-for-storytelling-and-social-justice-9780262047456","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}