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Title: Step 1: Unnerving norms and values
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Slug: 02-s5-step-1
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Date: 2020-11-01 12:01
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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:
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* What does the infrastructure bring together?
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* What kind of interaction is afforded by the infrastructure?
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* What does the design of the infrastructure render as valuable?
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* Who has the access and agency to intervene in the making of the infrastructure?
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* 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:
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* What communication features can be used to interact with others?
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* How do they shape the mode of conversation?
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* What does the system emphasise?
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* What does the system hide?
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