Maps and Journeys: An Ethno-methodological Investigation
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Abstract
The notion of the “cognitive map” has long been central to studies of maps, wayfinding, and navigation. In this article we provide an alternative approach to studying map use that re-situates these activities as shared social and cultural practices. The article draws on ethno-methodology and conversation analysis to study video of two examples of naturally organized map reading. We explore how journeying with maps is part of the in situ organization of matters such as workplace tasks, means of transportation, having a “nice day out,” maintaining friendships, and so on. In our first clip, a saleswoman consults an A–Z map while stopped at traffic lights in order to plan the journey ahead. In the second clip, a group of friends consult a map as they set off for a day trip together in a car. These clips provide thick descriptions of the detailed activities involved in map use.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 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