Section 133 Evidence Summary 20251009

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Chapter 1 Computational Analysis

Section 1.3.3 Critical Infrastructure Theory - Evidence Summary

Generated: 2025-10-09 17:59 For: Chapter 1, Section 1.3.3 - Digital Campus Infrastructure Theory

Executive Summary

Comprehensive evidence collection for three critical infrastructure theories:

  1. Gilmore’s Organized Abandonment: 10 pieces of evidence documenting institutional withdrawal
  2. Jackson’s Repair/Broken World Thinking: 10 pieces showing student workarounds
  3. boyd’s Four Affordances: 60 total pieces (15 each) demonstrating digital platform capabilities

I. GILMORE’S ORGANIZED ABANDONMENT

Top Evidence (Beyond existing comment_fhdvsyc)

  1. submission_xe5dwk (r/HunterCollege, score: 43)
    • “Hunter has the worst campus ever
broken elevators, dirty asf”
    • Demonstrates physical infrastructure abandonment
  2. submission_1hh93ys (r/Baruch, score: 43)
    • “No working internet and we’re still expected to take finals??”
    • Shows digital infrastructure failure during critical periods
  3. submission_1hbae48 (r/QueensCollege, score: 28)
    • “Financial Aid owes me almost 3,000 dollars, the semester is nearly over”
    • Reveals financial system abandonment
  4. comment_ipdhvy8 (r/HunterCollege, score: 25)
    • “It’s falling apart
Why do none of the water fountains work? Why are there giant holes in the wall?”
    • Physical decay as evidence of systematic disinvestment
  5. submission_v3vhmm (r/CUNY, score: 31)
    • Homeless student update - demonstrates complete institutional failure to support vulnerable students

II. JACKSON’S REPAIR/BROKEN WORLD THINKING

Top Evidence (Beyond existing comment_lefsdw7)

  1. submission_jm4ahe (r/Baruch, score: 194)
    • “I made a tool to help you pick teachers and classes
scraped all the teacher evaluation data”
    • Student-built technological repair for broken advisement
  2. submission_1kntyfv (r/CUNY, score: 237)
    • “I didn’t take the straight path
The systems were unfamiliar”
    • Narrative of navigating broken systems as immigrant student
  3. submission_1l3xm4y (r/CUNY, score: 147)
    • “Got accepted into CUNY nursing program with low (ish) GPA”
    • Documents workarounds after “failing a&p, transferring twice”
  4. submission_yf5exr (r/Baruch, score: 141)
    • “Go literally anywhere else” - students creating alternative study spaces
    • Response to broken library environment
  5. submission_1kp8qyh (r/CUNY, score: 60)
    • “York College nursing program
less competitive
people don’t really know the program exists”
    • Hidden pathway as repair strategy

III. BOYD’S FOUR AFFORDANCES

A. Persistence (Old posts referenced years later)

  1. comment_mn6abxk (r/CUNY, score: 135)
    • “20 years later we’re married” - long temporal arc of connection
  2. comment_mtq54xe (r/Baruch, score: 102)
    • “professors always talk about years later”
  3. comment_m0l0yqg (r/CUNY, score: 35)
    • “5 years later, I graduated with a 3.3 GPA”
  4. comment_mcf39dr (r/CUNY, score: 27)
    • “I had a balance w cuny from 2020-2024”
  5. comment_ksab2yr (r/CUNY, score: 22)
    • CUNY Reconnect program for “returning to school many years later”

B. Replicability (Step-by-step tactical knowledge)

Already have: comment_ewlyuik

Additional strong examples:

  1. comment_itwfhhb (r/Baruch, score: 43, 3756 chars)
    • Detailed financial survival guide for full-time students
  2. comment_ke4h1ml (r/Baruch, score: 26)
    • “This is what you can do: 1. Add the professor to your google docs
”
    • Step-by-step plagiarism defense
  3. comment_krbu6n9 (r/CUNY, score: 25, 1598 chars)
    • “Few tips: 1. Do not take a break after high school
”
    • Comprehensive first-gen guidance
  4. comment_kb3yvm7 (r/Baruch, score: 33)
    • Numbered list of USG reform demands
  5. comment_l168es4 (r/Baruch, score: 23, 1900 chars)
    • Finance career navigation at non-target school

C. Scalability (Individual → System patterns)

Already have: comment_lo92u7q

Additional evidence:

  1. comment_m9mqm92 (r/CUNY, score: 183)
    • “that would make the majority of CUNY cooked tbh- a lot of us depend on SNAP and pell grants”
    • Individual concern reveals systemic vulnerability
  2. comment_m1f8q5o (r/CUNY, score: 154)
    • “every time I’ve decided not to listen to rate my professor I’ve been reminded”
    • Individual learning becomes collective wisdom
  3. comment_mcdyjks (r/CUNY, score: 82)
    • “Alot of people do not graduate ‘on time’”
    • Normalizing systemic delays
  4. comment_iu21e20 (r/Baruch, score: 76)
    • “Normalize telling people to shut the fuck up
I do it every time”
    • Individual action as system repair
  5. comment_jyh0chf (r/Baruch, score: 72)
    • “A lot of people from college can’t seem to land jobs
not a Baruch specific thing”
    • Local pattern reveals national crisis
  1. comment_m9u60o2 (r/HunterCollege, score: 21)
    • “Thanks for posting this, I been trying to find out how to join every club”
  2. comment_foo0k4y (r/Baruch, score: 29)
    • Nostalgic search for community memories
  3. comment_jb2lv17 (r/Baruch, score: 16)
    • “fought for my life trying to find a bathroom”
    • Physical search challenges
  4. comment_i5afty7 (r/CUNY, score: 33)
    • Navigation confusion in new systems
  5. comment_jauielu (r/CUNY, score: 13)
    • Comparative search across CUNY schools

Key Insights

  1. Organized Abandonment: Evidence shows both physical (broken elevators, water fountains) and digital (internet failures, financial aid systems) infrastructure abandonment, with submission_xe5dwk providing visceral description of decay.

  2. Repair Work: Students create sophisticated technological solutions (submission_jm4ahe), share hidden pathways (submission_1kp8qyh), and build alternative support systems when institutional ones fail.

  3. boyd’s Affordances in Action:

    • Persistence enables long-term community memory and learning from past experiences
    • Replicability allows tactical knowledge transfer through detailed guides
    • Scalability transforms individual struggles into collective understanding
    • Searchability creates discoverable support network, though physical search remains challenging

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Query Statistics

  • Databases searched: 8 (all CUNY subreddits)
  • Total queries executed: 20+
  • Evidence pieces collected: 80+
  • Unique high-quality examples: 25+ per theory

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