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Infrastructure should be Embedded: Infrastructure is “sunk” into, inside of, other structures, social arrangements and technologies …

Infrastructure should be Embedded: Infrastructure is “sunk” into, inside of, other structures, social arrangements and technologies Transparent: Infrastructure is transparent to use, in the sense that it does not have to be reinvented each time or assembled for each task, but invisibly supports those tasks. Reach/scope: This may be either spatial or temporal — infrastructure has reach beyond a single event or one-site practice. Occurs across multiple places. Learned: Strangers and outsiders encounter infrastructure as a target object to be learned about. New participants acquire a naturalized

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