bots-as-digital-infrapunctures/content/Track 5 - Infrapunctural Imaginaries (exercise)/2-step-1.md

Title: Step 1: Unnerving norms and values
Slug: 02-s5-step-1
Date: 2020-11-01 12:01
Summary: Start of the exercise.

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*Consider the questions below and write your answers down.*

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When we talk about digital communication infrastructures, which ones come to mind? Make a list and pick one that you would like to work with.

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Regarding the norms and values of the infrastructure:

* What does the infrastructure bring together?
* What kind of interaction is afforded by the infrastructure?
* What does the design of the infrastructure render as valuable?
* Who has the access and agency to intervene in the making of the infrastructure? 
* How do these norms relate to power hierarchies, gender, ethnicity, class or race?

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Regarding the way these are manifested in the design of an infrastructure:

* What communication features can be used to interact with others?
* How do they shape the mode of conversation? 
* What does the system emphasise?
* What does the system hide?

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