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 …

Facebook is a social networking website launched in February 2004 that is operated and
privately owned by Facebook, Inc.,[1] with more than 500 million [5] active users in July …

Imagine scrolling through Facebook with all the images blacked out. You can read your
friends' jokes and their commentary on the links they share. But vacation photos? Visual …

In her 2021 book, Facebook, T aina Bucher argues “Facebook is Facebook,”(p. 3) and that
failing to recognize this dynamic, ever-changing entity as a “global operating system”(p. 5) is …

Ubiquitous social media giant Facebook has launched a mobile service called Instant
Articles. It allows news stories provided by a number of partners to be read in their entirety …

For all the public scrutiny heaped on tech companies in recent years, few people know how
Facebook really works. Certainly not lawmakers and, sometimes, not even Facebook itself …

While researchers have examined alternative (alt) text for social media and news contexts,
few have studied the status and challenges for authoring alt text of figures in computing …

Although the audience as an industrial media product has been scrutinised by scholars for
decades, the visual presentation of the audience has been nearly absent from scholarly …

With Facebook we see a built in commercialization of our communication infrastructure to an
unprecedented degree. Instead of choosing transparency, Facebook chooses to build its …

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