Infrastructure usually means the basic system and services that are necessary for an organization or a country. Nowadays, It expands telecommunication networks, power grids, and media so on. Usually, the infrastructure of the network is invisible, we may only see it during instances of inaccessibility or break-down. For example, there was a complete crash of Weibo, a social media in China, because of the breaking entertainment news. Too many people clicked into the same hot research, which caused the system to break down and people could not log in to it.\u00a0 The invisible world of the infrastructure of media is constituted by people’s time, attention, energy, and capital. Infrastructure develops according to people’s emotional needs. The media that has more people use and more functions that people like can be more competitive in the markets. As mentioned in the book “infrastructures not only deliver utilities to public but, in the process, reutilize publics as part of the base of their operations.” The infrastructure of media is still maintained by capital. People’s expression of emotions online and their social influence are all related to the infrastructure, which is maintained by both humans and technology. For example, if some famous people want to control the spread of their scandals, they need to depend on the infrastructure to restrict the information people want to post. In this of data, the media infrastructure will become more and more important.<\/p>\n
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