{"id":1114,"date":"2021-10-28T14:51:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T18:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2021-10-28T14:51:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T18:51:47","slug":"infrastructure-chloe-fandetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/10\/28\/infrastructure-chloe-fandetti\/","title":{"rendered":"Infrastructure \u2013 Chloe Fandetti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Infrastructure was defined in the early twentieth century as \u201ca collective term for the subordinate parts of an undertaking; substructure, foundation\u201d (106). Over the years, as the world has evolved, this definition has expanded to encompass various technological and industrial advancements including power grids, subways, freeways, sewer systems, pipelines, and more. Author Lisa Parks emphasizes the importance of the relationship between media infrastructures and affective labor; Media infrastructures rely on affective labor to sustain themselves. For example, the amount of people who use landlines has dramatically decreased over the past decade. This decrease is not because there is a technical or functional issue with landlines, but rather, people do not have enough attention, time, or money to use both their landlines and their mobile phones. New media and new technologies are constantly emerging, taking people\u2019s attention away from older ones. Whereas our society used to only have one telecommunication structure (telegraphy), it now has multiple systems (telephony, radio, cable, internet, satellite) that all have to cooperate and compete with each other for user\u2019s attention. Despite capitalism operating as if human time and energy are boundless, humans do not have the capacity to sustain all of the existing and emerging infrastructures. Although, increasing internet access in more underdeveloped countries would be one way to expand digital capitalism\u2019s human resources. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure was defined in the early twentieth century as \u201ca collective term for the subordinate parts of an undertaking; substructure, foundation\u201d (106). Over the years, as the world has evolved, this definition has expanded to encompass various technological and industrial advancements including power grids, subways, freeways, sewer systems, pipelines, and more. Author Lisa Parks emphasizes the importance of the relationship&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/10\/28\/infrastructure-chloe-fandetti\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68052],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","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\/1114","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\/5395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}