Translations: Artifacts from an Actor-Network Perspective
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
iPods, MP3s and file-sharing networks performa series of actions that are often reserved forhuman agents, such as the intellectual and tastedrivenlabor involved in selecting, sequencing, andrediscovering forgotten sound recordings. At thesame time, the familiar understanding of artifactsas stable, material, objective things “out there”is also being eroded by the infinite replicability,malleability, and ephemeral flickering of thingsonline. These trends lead to questions regardingthe ontological status of artifacts and reopenthe question of how to distinguish technicaland material artifacts from human and socialrelations. In this article, the author explores actornetworktheory’s (ANT) concept of translation,which advances an alternative framework forunderstanding the role of artifacts in everyday life.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.028 | 0.001 |
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