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If we understand an infrastructure as a relational device - or in other words - as a technology that brings things (back) together, we can start to critically enquire where infrastructures fail to do so.
If we understand an infrastructure as a relational structure - or in other words - as a technology that brings things (back) together, we can start to critically enquire where infrastructures fails to do so.
What are examples of infrastructures that do *not* bring things together anymore?
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[^Jackson]: Jackson, Steven J. "Rethinking Repair" *Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society* (2014): 221-239. [https://sjackson.infosci.cornell.edu/Jackson_RethinkingRepair(MITPress2014).pdf](https://sjackson.infosci.cornell.edu/Jackson_RethinkingRepair(MITPress2014).pdf)
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content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/2-introduction-deb-verhoeven.md
Deb Verhoeven first introduced the term *infrapuncture* in 2016 at a Digital Humanities conference in Oxford. In her talk she gives the example of the Greek and Italian cinemas that appeared in Melbourne before the invention of the video tape and the influence they have had over the influx and organisation of the Italian and Greek immigrants living in Australia at the time. Her research concluded that these small cinemas that only screened subtitled Italian and Greek movies led to an increase in migrant population from those areas. Similarly, the shutting down of a cinema coincided with the dispersion of the immigrant community in the neighbourhood.
In the following video contributions, Deb Verhoeven will unpack the term *infrapunctures*. She will explore how it is a useful departure point for infrastructural change that is benificial for the communities who uses them. We invited Deb Verhoeven to respond to the following questions:
In the following video contributions, Deb Verhoeven will unpack the term *infrapunctures*. She will explore how it is a useful departure point for infrastructural change that is beneficial for the communities who uses them. We invited Deb Verhoeven to respond to the following questions:
* What are digital infrapunctures?
* How do we identify stress points in digital infrastructures?
Welcome to the online module *Bots as Digital Infrapunctures*. :-)
Welcome to the online module *Bots as Digital Infrapunctures*.
Inspired by the potential of *digital infrapuncture*, a term coined by researcher Deb Verhoeven, this module brings bots and infrastructure together as *infrapunctures*. *Infrapuncture* is a portmanteau word which conflates *infrastructure* and *acupuncture*, referring to small-scale interventions that have a catalytic effect on the whole. This module explores what role bots can have as infrastructural stress relievers.
Inspired by the potential of *digital infrapuncture*, a term described by researcher Deb Verhoeven, this module brings bots and infrastructure together as *infrapunctures*. *Infrapuncture* is a portmanteau word which conflates *infrastructure* and *acupuncture*, referring to small-scale interventions that have a catalytic effect on the whole. This module explores what role bots can have as infrastructural stress relievers.
# Goals
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- identified some of the norms and values of a digital communication infrastructures
- signaled a particular tension (or rather hurt) that emerges from these norms and values
- signalled a particular tension (or rather hurt) that emerges from these norms and values
- proposed a bot that could potentially address or engage with this hurt
- evaluated the implications of bot-making and bot interventions
