bots-as-digital-infrapunctures/content/Track 5 - Infrapunctural Imaginaries (exercise)/4-step-3.md

Title: Step 3: How does the bot punctuate?
Slug: 04-s5-step-3
Date: 2020-11-01 12:03
Summary: Continuation of the excercise.

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*Outline a bot that engages with the specific point of stress you have identified. Consider the following questions.*

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How could a bot intervene in this situation? Or following Verhoeven's terminology, how could it *punctuate*?

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What (programmatic) behaviour could your bot enact? 

- *repetition*: bots can be run repeatedly
- *condition*: bots are often written in response to a particular condition
- *iteration*: bots can be used multiple times
- *memory*: bots can rely on a database
- *tempo*: bots can operate at a specific time frame as described by the programmer
- *versioning*: bots can make multiple versions of an original source
- *amplification*: bots can extend the reach of a message

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Some further questions that can help narrow down the action mode of your bot.

* What roles can be picked up by a bot? Is the bot for example a janitor, gardener, reporter?
* In what way is the bot conducive to the well-being of its context?
* What modes of interaction does the bot use? Is the bot for example witnessing, listening, gathering, greeting, sparking, whispering, reminding, shouting?

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