The Database ‘Revolution’

In this article, I counter persistent claims of big data revolutionising managerial decision making, by tracing the technological and cultural origins of data-based management in the United States back to the 1970s and 1980s using historical source materials from the trade magazine Datamation. I arg...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kerssens, Niels
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision 2018-11-01
Series:Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis
Online Access:https://www.tmgonline.nl/article/10.18146/2213-7653.2018.364/