{"id":1116,"date":"2021-10-28T16:57:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T20:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2021-10-28T19:14:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T23:14:08","slug":"alvin-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/10\/28\/alvin-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvin- Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the keyword essay, Infrastructure is a mode of organization for a complex system.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is the intangible <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">behind the scenes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> connections that hold together an orderly structure. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The amalgamation of infrastructure and media is very interesting because for a very long time, infrastructure has been linked to the physical element and not the details that make these objects usable and manageable. An example is the social media infrastructure comprising the users and the application but also the complex algorithms used to develop and maintain it.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Although usually associated with technologies, I think Infrastructure in society can be observed at the core foundation of a well established system in a given community. An example can be in the education sector . Institutionalised Education is not merely a single element but rather a mixture of components that make it exist. Thinking about the University of Richmond, I would say that\u00a0 the infrastructure does of course include\u00a0 current students and staff as the primary constituent but the infrastructure expands to the alumni, campus structures, shareholders, study abroad programs, clubs and a variety of other components that complete the puzzle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the keyword essay, Infrastructure is a mode of organization for a complex system.\u00a0It is the intangible behind the scenes connections that hold together an orderly structure. The amalgamation of infrastructure and media is very interesting because for a very long time, infrastructure has been linked to the physical element and not the details that make these objects usable&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/10\/28\/alvin-infrastructure\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68052],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","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\/1116","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\/5392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}