Phillip E. Hammond
From computer-assisted to data-driven: Journalism and Big Data
London South Bank University
despite claims continuity contemporary data journalism quite different earlier tradition computerassisted reporting although echoes earlier claims scientific democratic qualities understood resulting better data access rather something achieved journalist context big data particular human subjectivity tends downgraded importance even understood getting way means hubristically theorising causation rather working correlation allowing data speak increasing datafication driving changes profession however rather impact big data tends understood ways consonant preexisting expectations shaped broader contemporary posthumanist political context true academic analysis actornetwork theory seems emerging dominant paradigm understanding data journalism largely uncritical ways