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While this short module is not a programming lesson, a tutorial, or a set of methodologies to understand the possibilities of bots as infrapunctures, we hope that it can point towards a few ways in which bots either support or challenge the relations and interaction that a digital infrastructure makes possible.
Bots are of course not a solution to computationally generated harm, nor are they able to repair infrastructures, but they nonetheless enable certain possibilities to get to know and engage with their material, political and social aspects.
Throughout this module we have tried to trace multiple forms of bot making and thinking with as kinds of intervention within a digital infrastructure.
As they do not require to function within server-side conditions and can be run using personal resources, bots create potential for users to express agency within the infrastructure's affordances and possibly even relations between the human and nonhuman actors present.
Throughout this module we have tried to trace multiple forms of bot making and thinking with as a form of intervention within a digital infrastructure.
Bots are of course not a solution to computationally generated harm, nor are they able to repair infrastructures. While there is possibility to run a bot without using the API of an infrastructure, in order to have access to different functionalities than users, most bots still engage with it. It follows that with a change in an infrastructure's internal policy, they can easily be rejected.
Nonetheless, bots enable certain possibilities to get to know and engage with an infrastructure's material, political and social aspects. Bots are prototypes as arguments, pointing towards ways in which infrastructures could be different. And perhaps this rhetorical quality may lead to a bigger impact.
