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Record W189181732

Technology and design: Vancouver Magazine before and after desktop publishing

2005· dissertation· en· W189181732 on OpenAlex
Tatiana MacNeill

Why this work is in the frame

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueSummit (Simon Fraser University) · 2005
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicGraphic Design and Typography
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPublishingDesktop publishingContext (archaeology)Design technologyDesign and TechnologyTechnological changeWork (physics)Information technologyEngineeringComputer scienceMultimediaPolitical scienceVisual artsHistoryArtMechanical engineeringSystems engineering
DOInot available

Abstract

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This report examines the nature and dynamics of the relationship between technology and design on a practical level. Prompted by technological innovation, the report investigates the ways in which technological change appears to influence the practice of design. On a theoretical level, this report draws on the work of Herbert A. Simon who provides insight into the impact of technology on design. On a practical level, the report advances the relationship between technology and design by detailing the major influences of desktop publishing on publication design in the early years of its implementation. The manifestation of technology in design is explored through an analysis of the design of Vancouver Magazine, as well as an examination of information gathered directly from the past and current art directors of Vancouver Magazine that were present before, during, and after desktop publishing to provide context to the observed changes in production technologies and their influence on the design of Vancouver Magazine.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.618
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.185
Teacher spread0.174 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it