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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

Can you change the world with a homemade DeepFake?

Kenza Sabri (kenzasabri5@gmail.com) Zuzanna Kędzia (zuzanna.k0987@gmail.com) Daria Kochetkova (daria.kochetkova.08@gmail.com) “At the most basic level, deepfakes are lies disguised to look like truth. If we take them as truth or evidence, we can easily make false conclusions with potentially disastrous...

By Kenza Sabri on 10/21/20 Comments Off

From Disabilities to New Abilities

Have you ever thought about how visually impaired or hearing-impaired follow TV shows? Since television is taken for granted a long time ago, we usually ignore the fact that, for some, watching television can be indeed hard. Following TV...

By Gizem Ezgi Akdag on 09/08/13 Comments Off

Virtual Worlds in Modern China

Since the launch of Second Life (SL) by Linden Lab in 2003 it has attracted the attention of many Chinese users. Despite the popularity of SL in China and partly because SL has never been officially launched in China,...

By Pieter-Paul Walraven on 10/24/07 18

XS4ALL, internet access towards disabled people

Currently, I am nosing around in the subject of “Internet Accessibility” (IA in short) in preparation to my master thesis. By IA, I am thinking in two categories: (1) accessibility for people who are experiencing visual- /motorial- or geographical...

By Bas Bisseling on 10/14/07 Comments Off