Questions and answers from the midterm of Media, Time and Space from 2022. I got a 9 for this course. Answers are partly in Dutch, citations, terms and questions in English
1. In Lisa Parks’s discussion of her concept of “infrastructural a ects,” she urges us to
“excavat[e] the various dispositions, feelings, or sensations people experience during
encounters with infrastructure sites, facilities, or processes” (p. 107). To put that concept
to work, choose an example from one of the following three class lms: Lo and Behold,
The Forgotten Space, Parasite. Your example might be an ordinary citizen’s everyday
experience, a worker’s mundane practices, an oft-neglected, invisible condition, the
perspective of an expert such as scholar, engineer or economist, or some other aspect of
the experience of infrastructure that the lms engage with. Use this example to explain and
argue for the usefulness of Parks’s concept in understanding how a given infrastructure
produces and depends upon certain a ective experiences. What does this approach
illuminate about your example? (5 points)
In The Forgotten Space wordt de kijker op prangende wijze geconfronteerd met de enorme
infrastructuur die schuil ligt achter het containervervoer. De toenemende globalisering
heeft er voor gezorgd dat de consument verlangt naar meer en goedkoper, onbewust van
de enorme infrastructuur hierachter en de gevolgen die het met zich mee brengt. In de
documentaire komen 23 verschillende mensen aan het woord die allemaal in aanmerking
komen met het containervervoer en hun ervaringen delen. De variëteit van deze mensen in
leeftijd, etniciteit, cultuur en beroep, laat zien dat ondanks de onzichtbaarheid van een
infrastructuur, het grote invloed heeft op de a ectieve ervaringen van mensen over de hele
wereld. De milieuvervuiling die het containervervoer veroorzaakt zorgt voor verwaarloosde
en ongezonde leefomstandigheden voor mensen. De nanciële druk en concurrentie
zorgen voor stress bij de producent. De werkzaamheden zijn praktischer en eentoniger
geworden. Migranten worden uitgebuit voor onmenselijke arbeidsuren. De documentaire
laat door deze subjectieve ervaringen zien hoe de mensen die pro jt hebben van de
infrastructuur, de mensen die ermee in aanraking komen uitbuiten. Daarom is het
belangrijk dat het onzichtbare, zichtbaar wordt gemaakt, zoals Parks aandringt en dat is
precies wat Sekula en Burch hebben gedaan met deze documentaire lm. (196 woorden)
2. A number of theorists we’ve read argue that the history of who and what can be made
public—as well as the very distinction between private and public—depends crucially on
changes in media technologies (Habermas, Petersen, boyd, Dean). As Petersen writes,
“[o]ur very conceptions of what it means to be public have a media history in that they are
produced in signi cant part by the material and cultural means of making public” (p. 154).
Making direct and speci c reference to one or more of these readings from week three,
elaborate upon the sort of public(s) (or counterpublic(s) or common) “a orded” by print
media versus the Internet (e.g. SNSs (social network sites)). What di erence do these
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