{"id":1107,"date":"2021-10-28T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2021-10-28T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T15:45:00","slug":"infrastructure-grace-brogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/10\/28\/infrastructure-grace-brogan\/","title":{"rendered":"Infrastructure &#8211; Grace Brogan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure tends to be made to be invisible. In terms of physical infrastructure we tend not to notice the roads and bridges we drive across when their exists melds seamlessly with our own. However, if our roads are full of potholes we will be forced to be more consciously aware of our infrastructure. The same can be said of the infrastructure we often rely on to in our interactions with media, especially digital media. We probably don&#8217;t think about all the pieces that go into getting our cable TV into our house, until suddenly its not working. Or for a timely and relevant example, when Facebook and the other platforms it owns, liek Instagram, went down for several hours on October 5th. Suddenly, the issues with Facebook&#8217;s infrastructure which go unnoticed most of its users day after day were glaringly obvious. As this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/05\/technology\/facebook-outage-cause.html\">New York Times article<\/a> points out some of the specific infrastructure Facebook had put in place to makes things run more smoothly ended up backfiring. It is interesting to think about the fact that infrastructure almost entirely exists to be something we take for granted, but that at the same time there are some people who\u2019s entire job is working on said infrastructure to make sure its users don&#8217;t realize it is there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure tends to be made to be invisible. In terms of physical infrastructure we tend not to notice the roads and bridges we drive across when their exists melds seamlessly with our own. However, if our roads are full of potholes we will be forced to be more consciously aware of our infrastructure. The same can be said of the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/10\/28\/infrastructure-grace-brogan\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68052],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107","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\/1107","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\/5398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}