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Alternative for Who? Investigating Public Opinion on Alternative Platforms

Alternative for Who? Investigating Public Opinion on Alternative Platforms

By Tristan Bannerman, Amie Galbraith, and Natalie Kerby While monopoly power is growing in tech, so is the public consciousness of the inner workings of large platforms. A growing movement of alternative platforms could hold the potential answer to...
By Natalie Kerby on 10/29/21 Comments Off on Alternative for Who? Investigating Public Opinion on Alternative Platforms
Infrastructuring Vision: An Examination of Automatic Alt Text on Facebook

Infrastructuring Vision: An Examination of Automatic Alt Text on Facebook

In this commentary, I apply Susan Leigh Star and Geoffrey C. Bowker's concept of infrastructure to Facebook's automatic alt text tool. I discuss the tool in terms of its relational quality, the interplay between foreground and background, and the...
By Natalie Kerby on 10/02/21 Comments Off on Infrastructuring Vision: An Examination of Automatic Alt Text on Facebook