bots-as-digital-infrapunctures/content/Section 4 - Infrapunctural Imaginaries (exercise)/4-step-3.md

Title: Step 3: Infrapunctures Slug: section-4.4-step-3

Outline a bot that tackles a specific stress you have identified in the digital communication infrastructure you chose previously. Follow the following steps.

Identify a hurt concerning (lack of) agency, impact or power in relation to how your group communicates.

How could a bot intervene? In other words, how could it punctuate?

• Some (non-exhaustive) attributes of bot (programmatic) behaviour: iteration, repetition, storing, versioning, amplification, ...

Look at the questions below and pick a few to answer.

• What roles can be picked up by a bot? Is the bot for example a janitor, gardener, reporter?
• In what way is the bot conducive to the well-being of the group?
• What modes of interaction does the bot use? Is the bot for example witnessing, listening, gathering, greeting, sparking, whispering, reminding, shouting?