This is the repository for the online module Bots as Digital Infrapuncture, commissioned by the Utrecht University
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Title: Step 3: Infrapunctures Slug: 04-s5-step-3 Date: 2020-11-01 12:03 Summary: Continuation of the excercise.

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?