From d7ec20b3b5c38a79829c05af58775b6a5f832fb2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: manetta Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 19:47:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] adding some changes to section 3: bots --- .../2-introduction-seda.md | 2 +- content/Section 3 - Bots/1-introduction.md | 2 +- ...s-on-bots.md => 10-infrastructural-embodiment.md} | 12 +++++++++--- content/Section 3 - Bots/11-andreas-question-1.md | 2 +- content/Section 3 - Bots/12-andreas-question-2.md | 2 +- content/Section 3 - Bots/13-andreas-question-3.md | 2 +- content/Section 3 - Bots/14-andreas-question-4.md | 2 +- content/Section 3 - Bots/15-andreas-question-5.md | 2 +- .../Section 3 - Bots/4-bots-and-infrastructures.md | 4 ++-- content/Section 3 - Bots/5-question-1.md | 2 +- content/Section 3 - Bots/6-question-2.md | 2 +- content/Section 3 - Bots/7-question-3.md | 2 +- content/Section 3 - Bots/8-question-4.md | 2 +- content/Section 3 - Bots/9-question-5.md | 2 +- 14 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) rename content/Section 3 - Bots/{10-theoretical-perspectives-on-bots.md => 10-infrastructural-embodiment.md} (59%) diff --git a/content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/2-introduction-seda.md b/content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/2-introduction-seda.md index c4a8e4e..c0564d1 100644 --- a/content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/2-introduction-seda.md +++ b/content/Section 2 - Harm in Computational Infrastructures/2-introduction-seda.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Title: Introduction: Seda Gürses Slug: 02-s2-introduction Date: 2020-11-01 12:01 -Summary: Seda Gürses, computational infrastructures & *POTs (Protective Optimization Technologies)* +Summary: *Computational infrastructures* and *POTs (Protective Optimization Technologies)* Seda Gürses 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. diff --git a/content/Section 3 - Bots/1-introduction.md b/content/Section 3 - Bots/1-introduction.md index f393f75..dd3b127 100644 --- a/content/Section 3 - Bots/1-introduction.md +++ b/content/Section 3 - Bots/1-introduction.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Title: Introduction: Bots Slug: 01-s3-introduction Date: 2020-11-01 12:00 -Summary: What are bots? +Summary: What type of bots are being made? When we say bots, we refer to software agents which automatise certain actions and can run autonomously or semi-autonomously. diff --git a/content/Section 3 - Bots/10-theoretical-perspectives-on-bots.md b/content/Section 3 - Bots/10-infrastructural-embodiment.md similarity index 59% rename from content/Section 3 - Bots/10-theoretical-perspectives-on-bots.md rename to content/Section 3 - Bots/10-infrastructural-embodiment.md index 8714065..f521d17 100644 --- a/content/Section 3 - Bots/10-theoretical-perspectives-on-bots.md +++ b/content/Section 3 - Bots/10-infrastructural-embodiment.md @@ -1,8 +1,11 @@ -Title: Theoretical perspectives on Bots -Slug: 10-s3-communicative-bots +Title: Introduction: Andreas Hepp +Slug: 10-s3-infrastructural-embodiment Date: 2020-11-01 12:10 +Summary: *Communicative bots*, *communicative embodiment* and *infrastructural embodiment*. -Andreas Hepp is Professor for Media and Communications at the ZeMKI (Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research), University of Bremen, Germany. In the paper[^paper] we mentioned in the introduction to this chapter, he distinguishes three kinds of communicative bots: artificial companions, social bots and work bots. For Hepp, communicative bots are characterised through a double embodiment: a communicative embodiment, referring to the bots' human-like representation, and an infrastructural embodiment, referring to the bots being embedded in the materiality of the infrastructure on which they are active. Thinking about the bots in terms of embodiment helps situate them in relation to digital communication infrastructures and their user base. +Andreas Hepp is Professor for Media and Communications at the ZeMKI (Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research), University of Bremen, Germany. In the paper[^paper] we mentioned in the introduction to this chapter, he distinguishes three kinds of *communicative bots*: artificial companions, social bots and work bots. For Hepp, communicative bots are characterised through a double embodiment: a *communicative embodiment*, referring to the bots' human-like representation, and an *infrastructural embodiment*, referring to the bots being embedded in the materiality of the infrastructure on which they are active. + +Thinking about the bots in terms of embodiment helps to situate them in relation to digital communication infrastructures and their user base. We will introduce the work of Andreas Hepp through the following questions: @@ -12,6 +15,9 @@ We will introduce the work of Andreas Hepp through the following questions: * How does communication change in the presence of bots? * What role do they play in the construction of the social world and what does this say about their relation to power relations in society? +
+ # Footnotes + [^paper]: Hepp, Andreas. "Artificial companions, social bots and work bots: communicative robots as research objects of media and communication studies" *Media, Culture & Society* Volume 42 (2020): 1410-1426. diff --git a/content/Section 3 - Bots/11-andreas-question-1.md b/content/Section 3 - Bots/11-andreas-question-1.md index 3ca116a..7ce47e5 100644 --- a/content/Section 3 - Bots/11-andreas-question-1.md +++ b/content/Section 3 - Bots/11-andreas-question-1.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Title: Question 1: What distinguishes the communicative relationship between humans and robots? +Title: Question 1: What are communicative bots and why are they important to study now? Slug: 11-s3-question-1 Date: 2020-11-01 12:11 Summary: A video contribution of Andreas Hepp. diff --git a/content/Section 3 - Bots/12-andreas-question-2.md b/content/Section 3 - Bots/12-andreas-question-2.md index 85a9c19..b6af28a 100644 --- a/content/Section 3 - Bots/12-andreas-question-2.md +++ b/content/Section 3 - Bots/12-andreas-question-2.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Title: Question 2: How does public and personal communication change in light of the existence of communicative robots? +Title: Question 2: What main types of communicative bots are there? Slug: 12-s3-question-2 Date: 2020-11-01 12:12 Summary: A video contribution of Andreas Hepp. diff --git a/content/Section 3 - Bots/13-andreas-question-3.md b/content/Section 3 - Bots/13-andreas-question-3.md index 33e05f7..2163b65 100644 --- a/content/Section 3 - Bots/13-andreas-question-3.md +++ b/content/Section 3 - Bots/13-andreas-question-3.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Title: Question 3: How significant are communicative robots for the communicative construction of the social world and how does this relate to power relations in society? +Title: Question 3: How do bots relate to material infrastructures like platforms? Slug: 13-s3-question-3 Date: 2020-11-01 12:13 Summary: A video contribution of Andreas Hepp. diff --git a/content/Section 3 - Bots/14-andreas-question-4.md b/content/Section 3 - Bots/14-andreas-question-4.md index 41abc70..d38ebee 100644 --- a/content/Section 3 - Bots/14-andreas-question-4.md +++ b/content/Section 3 - Bots/14-andreas-question-4.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Title: Question 4: How can they relieve stress in infrastructures? +Title: Question 4: How does communication change in the presence of bots? Slug: 14-s3-question-4 Date: 2020-11-01 12:14 Summary: A video contribution of Andreas Hepp. diff --git a/content/Section 3 - Bots/15-andreas-question-5.md b/content/Section 3 - Bots/15-andreas-question-5.md index 5d433a6..e0a9323 100644 --- a/content/Section 3 - Bots/15-andreas-question-5.md +++ b/content/Section 3 - Bots/15-andreas-question-5.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Title: Question 5: Systematic causes of pain? +Title: Question 5: What role do they play in the construction of the social world and what does this say about their relation to power relations in society? Slug: 15-s3-question-5 Date: 2020-11-01 12:15 Summary: A video contribution of Andreas Hepp. diff --git a/content/Section 3 - Bots/4-bots-and-infrastructures.md b/content/Section 3 - Bots/4-bots-and-infrastructures.md index 8e9cc07..08398b4 100644 --- a/content/Section 3 - Bots/4-bots-and-infrastructures.md +++ b/content/Section 3 - Bots/4-bots-and-infrastructures.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -Title: Bots and Infrastructures +Title: Introduction: Darius Kazemi Slug: 04-s3-bots-and-infrastructures Date: 2020-11-01 12:02 -Summary: How do bots relate to infrastructures? +Summary: How do bots relate to digital infrastructures? Darius Kazemi is a computer programmer and artist, whose work engages with bot making and self-hosting social networks. He organised the Bot Summit[^summit] in 2013, 2014 and 2016. diff --git a/content/Section 3 - Bots/5-question-1.md b/content/Section 3 - Bots/5-question-1.md index 1f80874..e8bfda3 100644 --- a/content/Section 3 - Bots/5-question-1.md +++ b/content/Section 3 - Bots/5-question-1.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Title: Question 1: What types of bots are there? +Title: Question 1: Can you talk about your process of making bots? Slug: 05-s3-question-1 Date: 2020-11-01 12:05 Summary: A video contribution of Darius Kazemi. diff --git a/content/Section 3 - Bots/6-question-2.md b/content/Section 3 - Bots/6-question-2.md index 00e917e..9a57a44 100644 --- a/content/Section 3 - Bots/6-question-2.md +++ b/content/Section 3 - Bots/6-question-2.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Title: Question 2: How do they relate to infrastructures? +Title: Question 2: What types of bots are there? Slug: 06-s3-question-2 Date: 2020-11-01 12:06 Summary: A video contribution of Darius Kazemi. diff --git a/content/Section 3 - Bots/7-question-3.md b/content/Section 3 - Bots/7-question-3.md index a2516cc..de0df85 100644 --- a/content/Section 3 - Bots/7-question-3.md +++ b/content/Section 3 - Bots/7-question-3.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Title: Question 3: How do they operate differently in centralised or decentralised networks? +Title: Question 3: How do bots relate to digital infrastructures? Slug: 07-s3-question-3 Date: 2020-11-01 12:07 Summary: A video contribution of Darius Kazemi. diff --git a/content/Section 3 - Bots/8-question-4.md b/content/Section 3 - Bots/8-question-4.md index d647b6d..6e38352 100644 --- a/content/Section 3 - Bots/8-question-4.md +++ b/content/Section 3 - Bots/8-question-4.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Title: Question 4:L Can you talk about your process of making bots? +Title: Question 4: How do bots operate differently in centralised or decentralised networks? Slug: 08-s3-question-4 Date: 2020-11-01 12:08 Summary: A video contribution of Darius Kazemi. diff --git a/content/Section 3 - Bots/9-question-5.md b/content/Section 3 - Bots/9-question-5.md index 4661631..eb0d907 100644 --- a/content/Section 3 - Bots/9-question-5.md +++ b/content/Section 3 - Bots/9-question-5.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Title: QUESTION 5 +Title: Question 5: Can you give some examples of bots that you made? Slug: 09-s3-question-5 Date: 2020-11-01 12:09 Summary: A video contribution of Darius Kazemi. From 4fafbe956f627c52b3cd9a86d65d329dab3db7a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: manetta Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 20:17:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] adding a seperate intro page for deb in section 1 --- .../1-introduction.md | 8 -------- ...tion-1.md => 2-introduction-deb-verhoeven.md} | 16 +++++++++------- .../3-question-1.md | 8 ++++++++ .../{3-question-2.md => 4-question-2.md} | 4 ++-- .../{4-question-3.md => 5-question-3.md} | 4 ++-- .../{5-question-4.md => 6-question-4.md} | 0 .../{6-question-5.md => 7-question-5.md} | 0 .../2-materiality-of-bots.md | 2 +- 8 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) rename content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/{2-question-1.md => 2-introduction-deb-verhoeven.md} (65%) create mode 100644 content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/3-question-1.md rename content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/{3-question-2.md => 4-question-2.md} (82%) rename content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/{4-question-3.md => 5-question-3.md} (80%) rename content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/{5-question-4.md => 6-question-4.md} (100%) rename content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/{6-question-5.md => 7-question-5.md} (100%) diff --git a/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/1-introduction.md b/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/1-introduction.md index dc8b509..4e15c5a 100644 --- a/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/1-introduction.md +++ b/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/1-introduction.md @@ -25,14 +25,6 @@ Who is an infrastructure bringing together? And who *not*? What are the conditio And, most importantly, *who* can actually intervene in the design of infrastructures? And *how*? -We invited Deb Verhoeven to respond to the following questions: - -* What are digital infrapunctures? -* How do we identify stress points in digital infrastructures? -* Who can create infrapunctures? -* Could you expand on the analogy of acupuncture in relation to infrastructures? -* Could you give some examples of infrapunctural interventions? -
# Footnotes & Further readings diff --git a/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/2-question-1.md b/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/2-introduction-deb-verhoeven.md similarity index 65% rename from content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/2-question-1.md rename to content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/2-introduction-deb-verhoeven.md index 8ac8621..e81d4e6 100644 --- a/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/2-question-1.md +++ b/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/2-introduction-deb-verhoeven.md @@ -1,12 +1,14 @@ -Title: Question 1: What are digital infrapunctures? -Slug: 02-s1-question-1 +Title: Introduction: Deb Verhoeven +Slug: 02-s1-introduction-deb-verhoeven Date: 2020-11-01 12:01 -Summary: A video contribution by Deb Verhoeven. +Summary: 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. +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: - \ No newline at end of file +* What are digital infrapunctures? +* How do we identify stress points in digital infrastructures? +* Who can create infrapunctures? +* Could you expand on the analogy of acupuncture in relation to infrastructures? +* Could you give some examples of infrapunctural interventions? diff --git a/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/3-question-1.md b/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/3-question-1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d22a2b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/3-question-1.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Title: Question 1: What are digital infrapunctures? +Slug: 03-s1-question-1 +Date: 2020-11-01 12:02 +Summary: A video contribution by Deb Verhoeven. + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/3-question-2.md b/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/4-question-2.md similarity index 82% rename from content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/3-question-2.md rename to content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/4-question-2.md index 2a67277..341b6f7 100644 --- a/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/3-question-2.md +++ b/content/Section 1 - Digital Infrapunctures/4-question-2.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Title: Question 2: How do we identify stress points in digital infrastructures? -Slug: 03-s1-question-2 -Date: 2020-11-01 12:02 +Slug: 04-s1-question-2 +Date: 2020-11-01 12:03 Summary: A video contribution by Deb Verhoeven.