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What infrastructure means to me
Paul SpenceDepartment of Digital Humanities, King’s College London
'Interrogating Infrastructure: A Symposium', hosted by @kingsdh #KDLabKing’s College London, 8 July 2016
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Different perceptions
• Infrastructure as service• Infrastructure as communication space• Infrastructure as research topic
• Infrastructure vs ecosystem/other terms• Does the term have too much semantic
baggage?
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Who? What? Why?
• Who has created the infrastructure?• What does it consist of?• Why did they create it? What were their aims?
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‘Four lenses’ of infrastructure
– Planned or intended infrastructure• Official scoping/documentation
– Created or delivered infrastructure• In practice
– Received or understood infrastructure• How understood by users
– Hidden or tacit infrastructure
• After Four lenses for curriculum, Bernstein 1975
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‘Architectures of participation’ in the humanities
• Networks, flows, structures, relationships• Architectures shapes … participation• Infrastructure profoundly influences how we
see ourselves in the world (as researchers)
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Cultural and linguistic topographies of infrastructure
• What languages (can) operate within a given infrastructure?– Centre and periphery dynamics– Wikipedia, centrality of English? (Pentzold, 2011)
• How different language communities shape it• Relationship to national/regional/linguistic
contexts
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How can we …
• Overcome national/economic/institutional boundaries?
• Make infrastructure more inclusive?• Facilitate broader linguistic and geographic
interaction?
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Contact:Paul Spence
Department of Digital HumanitiesKing’s College [email protected]
Twitter: @dhpaulspence
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