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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:
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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*?
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