ABSTRACT
This chapter explores conflict and contention over the participants, the practices and the professional norms and values of journalism are articulated in the realm of data journalism. Data journalism includes continuously developing tools, technologies and platforms. The volatility in data journalism extends to the environment in which journalists operate, considering the wider context of the technologies of content creation. Data journalism shares and extends the challenges of the liquidization of journalism as data has become a growing area of journalistic practice with what K. Fink and C. W. Anderson say is an “explosion in data journalism-oriented scholarship”. The normative and epistemological tensions are indicative of strategies to assert the legitimacy and credibility of data journalism as a form of knowledge production. Anderson examines these tensions through a rich exploration of the genealogy of data journalism in the US, tracing how the practice relates to journalistic efforts “to render their knowledge claims more certain, contextual, and explanatory”.
