diff --git a/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/1-introduction.md b/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/1-introduction.md index d60a35d..f269013 100644 --- a/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/1-introduction.md +++ b/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/1-introduction.md @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ Title: Introduction - Digital Infrapuncture Slug: 01-s1-introduction-digital-infrapuncture Date: 2020-11-01 12:00 -Summary: *Digital infrapuncture* is a speculative term that can help reframe the perception of the stress points that an infrastructure could have. +Summary: *Digital infrapuncture* is a speculative term that can help reframe the perception of the stress points that an infrastructure could have. [perhaps give some examples of stress points, now it is really abstract] -*Digital infrapuncture* is a speculative term that can help reframe the perception of the stress points that an infrastructure could have. In a talk she presented in 2016 called *Identifying the point of it all: Towards a Model of "Digital Infrapuncture"*[^DigitalInfrapuncture], Verhoeven develops this concept in relation to the field of digital humanities. +*Digital infrapuncture* is a speculative term that can help reframe the perception [<- I don't understand this idea of reframing the perception, be more concrete e.g. it draws attention to stress points in infrastructure and stimulates thinking about how to intervene] of the stress points that an infrastructure could have. In a talk she presented in 2016 called *Identifying the point of it all: Towards a Model of "Digital Infrapuncture"*[^DigitalInfrapuncture], [add Deb] Verhoeven [add Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and Cultural Informatics at the University of Alberta] develops this concept in relation to the field of digital humanities. -Informed by the work of scholar Nowviskie[^Nowviskie], Verhoeven asks for a rethinking of digital infrastructures in terms of capacity and care, by *"developing an appreciation for where it hurts, where the sense of pain is in the worlds that we inhabit and study"* and creating small scale interventions which can enkindle transformation on a larger scale. +Informed by the work of scholar [add Bethany] Nowviskie[^Nowviskie], Verhoeven asks for a rethinking of digital infrastructures in terms of capacity and care, by *"developing an appreciation for where it hurts, where the sense of pain is in the worlds that we inhabit and study"* and creating small scale interventions which can enkindle transformation on a larger scale. In her presentation, she describes digital infrastructures according to their: @@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ In her presentation, she describes digital infrastructures according to their: 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? +What are examples of infrastructures that do *not* bring things together anymore [delete? it seems to be the same question as on line 24]? -How does an infrastructure connect? And how are these connections constructed and formatted? +How does an infrastructure connect? And how are these connections constructed and formatted? [it seems this should be the first question] Who is an infrastructure bringing together? And who *not*? What are the conditions and possibilities for connection they provide? Where do they *not* connect and concequently exclude people? -And, most importantly, *who* can actually intervene in the design of infrastructures? And *how*? +And, most importantly, *who* can [perhaps rephrase as 'who has the access and agency to'] actually intervene in the design of infrastructures? And *how*?