Infrastructure and Knowledge Creation by Emily Lago Anderson

emilygla1 — 2023-10-29 19:43:09 UTC

Race selection options on identification forms

emilygla1 — 2023-10-29 19:51:42 UTC

The evolution of awareness around addiction. In the early 1900s, addiction was depicted as a mental illness which inflicted the "degenerate and feeble-minded". In modern day, society has continued to work against that stigma and reframe addiction as an illness which requires medical care and recovery.

emilygla1 — 2023-10-29 19:52:11 UTC

“The normally invisible quality of working infrastructure becomes visible when it breaks.” - L. Star

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“Study a city and neglect its sewers and power supplies (as many have), and you miss essential aspects of distributional justice and planning power (Latour & Hermant, 1998). Study an information system and neglect its standards, wires, and setting, and you miss equally essential aspects of aesthetics, justice, and change." (Star, 1999, pg. 379).

Public transit - the physical structures + mapping of someone's desired routes and locations

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Employee Handbooks + Office Policies

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Include the ecological

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include relational

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Languages, and how they are used/not used, supported/not supported

Organizational structure (e.g. org chart, hierarchies, salaries).

aleperez19 — 2023-10-31 16:04:24 UTC

Include "unseen"

vroach6 — 2023-10-31 16:04:24 UTC

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Policy that protects accessibility

Computer codes, algorithms, and processes

vroach6 — 2023-10-31 16:04:53 UTC

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sometimes governmental programs

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It is rarely linear, and different seen and unseen elements connect to and influence each other in unexpected ways via feedback loops

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I've been wondering if grammar in dialect is considered infrastructure or if it's not useful to pull that category in.

Historical and power considerations

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Maybe something about it being layered / interwoven with previously created knowledge?

vroach6 — 2023-10-31 16:06:07 UTC

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Also, maybe how knowledge is understood in context??

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I was thinking about oral histories and wondering about what knowledge creation means for locating knowledge

Learn to unlearn, study the unstudied

yzhou25_ — 2023-10-31 16:06:32 UTC

Social media

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Neurodiversity- the categorization of how we learn and interpret information.

Something about how there are unseen battles to include knowledge, e.g. the LGBTQIA+ organization being included in the phone book.

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Emotion and somatic experience as valued knowledge/indicators of important learnings. What your body experiences helps encode memory. Trusting those whose bodies have knowledge to share with you

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Star offers a more detailed definition of her theory of infrastructure in order to show how mundane aspects of everyday life are part of embedded social arrangements. “Attending” class on zoom is part of embedded infrastructure of rules from the syllabus, your health status, expectations of what it means to be responsible to the collective, the internet connection, zoom passwords, etc.

Everyday life experiences.

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“A common example is the substitution of precision for validity in the creation of a system of indicators or categories. When large epistemological stakes are at issue in the development of a system, one political tactic is to focus away from the larger question, and instead to seize control of the indicators.” (p. 388)

Story

bebp — 2023-10-31 16:08:15 UTC

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thinking about how we build identities and then how identity in turn creates knowledge

aleperez19 — 2023-10-31 16:09:14 UTC

"Activists established community-based archives and began local history projects to uncover history that the academy had neglected, or perhaps, resisted." (Graves, pp 487).