{"id":1093,"date":"2021-10-27T20:20:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T00:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2021-10-27T20:20:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T00:20:24","slug":"marielle-dibbini-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/10\/27\/marielle-dibbini-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Marielle Dibbini: Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Infrastructure has been an extremely crucial part to the development of our society. In earlier years, many thought that infrastructure was simply a system of structures with operational functions. However, with the major development of new forms of technology in recent generations, we must ask ourselves, what is the connection between infrastructure and new technology? The internet, social media, and many other forms of new technology are run by technological systems. Unlike real life infrastructure that exists all around us (buildings, highways, water supplies, etc.), we are unable to see the systems that are constantly working behind the scenes. These systems allow media apps to run smoothly. In class we discussed how glitches on social media apps or the internet can expose infrastructure. Similar to how bridges can collapse, social media apps can crash due to the lack of support infrastructure provided at a certain point in time. When Instagram doesn\u2019t allow someone to like a post because the app is loading, infrastructure is exposed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure has been an extremely crucial part to the development of our society. In earlier years, many thought that infrastructure was simply a system of structures with operational functions. However, with the major development of new forms of technology in recent generations, we must ask ourselves, what is the connection between infrastructure and new technology? The internet, social media, and&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/10\/27\/marielle-dibbini-infrastructure\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68052],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infrastructure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}