From the beginning, Rose and Dovey set out to establish that there is a new wave of interactive media continually evolving and being developed. Their abstract states that the ‘new affordances’ in digitally interactive media present the opportunity for media makers to develop and entirely new ‘visual and informational grammar’.

They frighteningly reference O’Reilly (‘Strata: Making Data Work Conference’) and state that new capabilities ‘will unseat and launch entire industries, hold governments accountable, and empower society’ – a scary prospect to consider. They include that data power will change the world in the same way that steam power did.

The article talks about data as a ‘sea’. Which is an interesting metaphor as the sea is: large, deep, scary, unexplored, partially inhospitable and did I mention scary?…