Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
John Peters' Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication is an important contribution to the discussion of the history and theory of communication. Peters opens up new ground for discussing the evolution of an idea of communication. He eloquently interrelates communication, its technolo-gies, and their social impact with philosophy and literature. The book is open to criticism for its marketing of the idea of communication while presenting an idea of communication. From a Canadian perspective, Peters demonstrates a U.S. bias, short-changing significant contributions to history, theory, and the history of theory from Innis and McLuhan to Heyer and Crowley. Nevertheless, this well-written, scholarly work is a vital and important starting point for a major re-evaluation and debate concerning these issues.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it