bots-as-digital-infrapunctures/content/Section 5 - Infrapunctural Imaginaries (exercise)/2-step-1.md

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Title: Step 1: Unnerving norms and values Slug: 02-s5-step-1 Date: 2020-11-01 12:01 Summary: Start of the exercise.


Consider the questions below and write your answers down.


When we talk about digital communication infrastructures, which ones come to mind? Make a list and pick one that you would like to work with.


Regarding the norms and values of the infrastructure:

  • What does the infrastructure bring together?
  • What kind of interaction is afforded by the infrastructure?
  • What does the design of the infrastructure render as valuable?
  • Who has the access and agency to intervene in the making of the infrastructure?
  • How do these norms relate to power hierarchies, gender, ethnicity, class or race?

Regarding the way these are manifested in the design of an infrastructure:

  • What communication features can be used to interact with others?
  • How do they shape the mode of conversation?
  • What does the system emphasise?
  • What does the system hide?