1. Are Digital Platforms a New Form of Social Infrastructure?
- The expansion of the concept of infrastructure and a humanities-based approach
- The transition from physical infrastructure to digital infrastructure
- The structural role of platforms in the content industry
- Digital infrastructure and everyday life: changes in cultural experience
- A critical reflection on the immateriality of the digital
2. Future Cultural Infrastructure Shaped by AI and Data
- The infrastructuralisation of data, artificial intelligence, and algorithms
- Platform algorithms and content recommendation systems
- Changes brought by generative AI to the content creation environment
- How AI and data are transforming cultural consumption
- Changes in local culture, tourism, and festival ecosystems driven by digital technology
- The role of citizens in AI-based cultural infrastructure
- Future directions for cultural infrastructure
The central question for future cultural infrastructure is not:
“What can AI and data do?”
