From 5c67c1f023d48f2211c7d71e8990c6f2244c6e9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: manetta Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:55:58 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] changes in section 1 and 2 + in the start file --- .../1-introduction.md | 2 +- .../2-question-1.md | 0 .../3-question-2.md | 0 .../4-question-3.md | 0 .../5-question-4.md | 0 .../6-question-5.md | 0 .../1-introduction.md | 47 +++++++++++++++++++ .../2-question-1.md | 2 +- .../3-question-2.md | 2 +- .../4-question-3.md | 2 +- .../5-question-4.md | 2 +- .../6-question-5.md | 2 +- .../1-what-types-of-bots-are-there.md | 6 --- .../1-introduction.md | 2 + .../1-introduction.md | 2 +- content/pages/start.md | 8 ++-- 16 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) rename content/{Section 1 - Digital Infrapuncture => Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures}/1-introduction.md (93%) rename content/{Section 1 - Digital Infrapuncture => Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures}/2-question-1.md (100%) rename content/{Section 1 - Digital Infrapuncture => Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures}/3-question-2.md (100%) rename content/{Section 1 - Digital Infrapuncture => Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures}/4-question-3.md (100%) rename content/{Section 1 - Digital Infrapuncture => Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures}/5-question-4.md (100%) rename content/{Section 1 - Digital Infrapuncture => Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures}/6-question-5.md (100%) create mode 100644 content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/1-introduction.md rename content/{Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures => Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures}/2-question-1.md (79%) rename content/{Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures => Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures}/3-question-2.md (89%) rename content/{Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures => Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures}/4-question-3.md (64%) rename content/{Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures => Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures}/5-question-4.md (72%) rename content/{Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures => Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures}/6-question-5.md (69%) delete mode 100644 content/Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures/1-what-types-of-bots-are-there.md diff --git a/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapuncture/1-introduction.md b/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/1-introduction.md similarity index 93% rename from content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapuncture/1-introduction.md rename to content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/1-introduction.md index ec6db34..4e15c5a 100644 --- a/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapuncture/1-introduction.md +++ b/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/1-introduction.md @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ In her presentation, she describes digital infrastructures according to their: ![A screenshot of the last slide from Verhoeven's presentation.](/images/slide.png) -If we understand an infrastructure as a relational device -- or in other words -- as a technology that bring things (back) together, we critically enquire where do fail in doing this. +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. What are examples of infrastructures that do *not* bring things together anymore? diff --git a/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapuncture/2-question-1.md b/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/2-question-1.md similarity index 100% rename from content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapuncture/2-question-1.md rename to content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/2-question-1.md diff --git a/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapuncture/3-question-2.md b/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/3-question-2.md similarity index 100% rename from content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapuncture/3-question-2.md rename to content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/3-question-2.md diff --git a/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapuncture/4-question-3.md b/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/4-question-3.md similarity index 100% rename from content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapuncture/4-question-3.md rename to content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/4-question-3.md diff --git a/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapuncture/5-question-4.md b/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/5-question-4.md similarity index 100% rename from content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapuncture/5-question-4.md rename to content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/5-question-4.md diff --git a/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapuncture/6-question-5.md b/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/6-question-5.md similarity index 100% rename from content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapuncture/6-question-5.md rename to content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/6-question-5.md diff --git a/content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/1-introduction.md b/content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/1-introduction.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fec63c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/1-introduction.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +Title: Introduction: Harms in Computational Infrastructures +Slug: 01-s2-introduction +Date: 2020-11-01 12:00 +Summary: How to correct, shift or expose harms in computational infrastructures? + + + +What are computational infrastructures? + +Who designs them? What values do they embed into digital systems? + +The work of Seda Gürses[^seda] provides us with handles to XXX [unpack, look closer into, study, explore] computational infrastructures. Throughout her work she has questioned the notion of "fair" technologies, how such "fair" practices are XXX [formulated, reasoned upon, shaped] and who is involved in reviewing the "fair" impact of digital systems. An important factor in her work is to approach computational infrastructures as systems that are far more than a technological ecosystems alone. + + + + + +Three works that particulary connect to *digital infrapunctures* are her work on *POTs (Protective Optimization Technologies)*[^pots], *Programmable Infrastructures*[^progammableinfrastructures] and *The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest*[^titipi]. Links to these works are included at the bottom of this page. + + + + + +This section contains five video contributions in which she will unpack how computational infrastructures operate and what impact that has on the digital systems that are being built on top of them. + +We invited her to respond to the following questions: + +* What are computational infrastructures? +* What are elements that shape (or are shaped by) computational infrastructures? +* How can we understand the harm caused by computational infrastructures and the systems which deploy them? +* What interventions are possible to mitigate or eliminate this harm? +* What kind of limitations do you see in the realisation of these interventions? + + + + + + +# Footnotes + +[^seda]: Seda is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Multi-Actor Systems at TU Delft at the Faculty of Technology Policy and Management, and an affiliate at the COSIC Group at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven. Beyond her academic work, she also collaborated with artistic initiatives including Constant vzw, Bootlab, De-center, ESC in Brussels, Graz and Berlin. + +[^pots]: Bogdan Lulynych, Rebekah Overdorf, Carmela Troncoso, Seda Gürses "POTs: Protective Optimization Technologies" (2020). + +[^progammableinfrastructures]: Seda Gürses, Roel Dobbe, Martha Poon "Seminar on Programmable Infrastructures" (2020). + +[^titipi]: Miriyam Aouragh, Seda Gürses, Femke Snelting, Helen Pritchard "The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest" (accessed on 2020) diff --git a/content/Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures/2-question-1.md b/content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/2-question-1.md similarity index 79% rename from content/Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures/2-question-1.md rename to content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/2-question-1.md index f1f8256..ddd13c5 100644 --- a/content/Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures/2-question-1.md +++ b/content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/2-question-1.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Title: Question 1: What are programmable infrastructures? +Title: Question 1: What are computational infrastructures? Slug: 02-s2-question-1 Date: 2020-11-01 12:01 Summary: A video contribution by Seda Gürses. diff --git a/content/Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures/3-question-2.md b/content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/3-question-2.md similarity index 89% rename from content/Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures/3-question-2.md rename to content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/3-question-2.md index 859a714..ee79b09 100644 --- a/content/Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures/3-question-2.md +++ b/content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/3-question-2.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Title: Question 2: What are elements that shape (or are shaped by) programmable infrastructures? +Title: Question 2: What are elements that shape (or are shaped by) computational infrastructures? Slug: 03-s2-question-2 Date: 2020-11-01 12:02 Summary: A video contribution by Seda Gürses. diff --git a/content/Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures/4-question-3.md b/content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/4-question-3.md similarity index 64% rename from content/Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures/4-question-3.md rename to content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/4-question-3.md index fb4cb90..cb7b231 100644 --- a/content/Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures/4-question-3.md +++ b/content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/4-question-3.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Title: Question 3: How can they be made to serve a "public interest"? +Title: Question 3: How can we understand the harm caused by computational infrastructures and the systems which deploy them? Slug: 04-s2-question-3 Date: 2020-11-01 12:03 Summary: A video contribution by Seda Gürses. diff --git a/content/Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures/5-question-4.md b/content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/5-question-4.md similarity index 72% rename from content/Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures/5-question-4.md rename to content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/5-question-4.md index 101fce8..0b9baab 100644 --- a/content/Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures/5-question-4.md +++ b/content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/5-question-4.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Title: Question 4: Who can be involved in the making of these infrastructures? +Title: Question 4: What interventions are possible to mitigate or eliminate this harm? Slug: 05-s2-question-4 Date: 2020-11-01 12:04 Summary: A video contribution by Seda Gürses. diff --git a/content/Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures/6-question-5.md b/content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/6-question-5.md similarity index 69% rename from content/Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures/6-question-5.md rename to content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/6-question-5.md index 64e7d57..0e1ed3f 100644 --- a/content/Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures/6-question-5.md +++ b/content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/6-question-5.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Title: QUESTION 5: What interventions are possible in programmable infrastructures? +Title: QUESTION 5: What kind of limitations do you see in the realisation of these interventions? Slug: 06-s2-question-5 Date: 2020-11-01 12:05 Summary: A video contribution by Seda Gürses. diff --git a/content/Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures/1-what-types-of-bots-are-there.md b/content/Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures/1-what-types-of-bots-are-there.md deleted file mode 100644 index 94e8e32..0000000 --- a/content/Section 2 - Stress Points In Digital Infrastructures/1-what-types-of-bots-are-there.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ -Title: Introduction: Programmable Infrastructures -Slug: 01-s2-introduction -Date: 2020-11-01 12:00 -Summary: What are Programmable Infrastructures? - -How are digital infrastructures different from other infrastructures? Seda Gürses in collaboration with Roel Dobbe and Martha Poon have formulated a distinct category: *programmable infrastructures*. diff --git a/content/Section 5 - Infrapunctural Imaginaries (exercise)/1-introduction.md b/content/Section 5 - Infrapunctural Imaginaries (exercise)/1-introduction.md index 3ccfec3..8403fb6 100644 --- a/content/Section 5 - Infrapunctural Imaginaries (exercise)/1-introduction.md +++ b/content/Section 5 - Infrapunctural Imaginaries (exercise)/1-introduction.md @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ So far, you have encountered different digital infrastructures throughout this m Doing an exercise will create space to engage with the term *digital infrapunctures* in a playful way, allowing us to speculate about possible bot interventions or infrapunctural actions. +[note: insert prototypes as arguments] + # What is the exercise? Imagine that a specific group is working with (or on) a bot as infrapunctural intervention. Choose a communicative infrastructure that is used by the group for this intervention and imagine what is happening. diff --git a/content/Section 6 - Critical Interventions Through Bots (exercise)/1-introduction.md b/content/Section 6 - Critical Interventions Through Bots (exercise)/1-introduction.md index 9d6987a..1a79925 100644 --- a/content/Section 6 - Critical Interventions Through Bots (exercise)/1-introduction.md +++ b/content/Section 6 - Critical Interventions Through Bots (exercise)/1-introduction.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Summary: Start of the bot-making excercise. In this last section of the module we will make a bot. 🤖 -We will use the dialog writing exercise and transform it into a bot ([in case you haven't done it yet, it is recommended to go through this section first](/category/http://localhost:8000/category/section-5-infrapunctural-imaginaries-exercise.html)). +We will use the dialog writing exercise and transform it into a bot ([in case you haven't done it yet, it is recommended to go through this section first](/category/section-5-infrapunctural-imaginaries-exercise.html)). Before we dive into bot-making, we will first look into the **materiality of bots**: How do they operate? What code is needed to make a bot? And how does a bot connect to an infrastructure, both in a technical and dialogical way? diff --git a/content/pages/start.md b/content/pages/start.md index ec38a99..df18b05 100644 --- a/content/pages/start.md +++ b/content/pages/start.md @@ -17,18 +17,16 @@ By the end of the module you will have: - 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 -- studied different kind of examples of communicative and artistic bots -- learned how bots can be activating agents by identifying (?) hurt -- proposed a bot that could potentially resolve (resolve? spack back to? engage with?) this hurt +- proposed a bot that could potentially address or engage with this hurt - evaluated the implications of bot-making and bot interventions -You can go through this module at your own speed. No subscription is required, you can simply start by clicking on the "start" button in each section and follow the instructions. +You can go through this module at your own speed. No subscription is required, you can simply start by clicking on the *start* button in each section and follow the instructions. You will need approximately 4 hours to go through this whole module. # About this module -This module is written by Cristina Cochior and Manetta Berends who are both part of [Varia](https://varia.zone/en/), a member-based organisation in the South of Rotterdam that works on/with everyday technology. +This module is written by Cristina Cochior and Manetta Berends, who are both part of [Varia](https://varia.zone/en/), a member-based organisation in the South of Rotterdam that works on/with everyday technology. The module is developed in the context of the *Tool Criticism* course at the [Utrecht University](https://datafiedsociety.nl/research/) in collaboration with [Creative Coding Utrecht](https://creativecodingutrecht.nl/).