Personal soundtracks on public transit : personal listening devices and socio-spatial negotiations of students' bus journeys
Bibliographic record
Abstract
One way of exploring the power of sound in the experience and constitution of space is \nthrough the phenomenon of personal listening devices (PLDs) in public environments. In this \nthesis, I draw from in-depth interviews with eleven Brock University students in S1. \nCatharines, Ontario, to show how PLDs (such as MP3 players like the iPod) are used to \ncreate personalized soundscapes and mediate their public transit journeys. I discuss how my \ninterview participants experience the space-time of public transit, and show how PLDs are \nused to mediate these experiences in acoustic and non-acoustic ways. PLD use demonstrates \nthat acoustic and environmental experiences are co-constitutive, which highlights a \nkinaesthetic quality of the transit-space. My empirical findings show that PLDs transform \nspace, particularly by overlapping public and private appropriations of the bus. I use these \nempirical findings to discuss the PLD phenomenon in the theoretical context of spatiality, \nand more specifically, acoustic space. J develop the ontological notion of acoustic space, \nstating that space shares many of the properties of sound, and argue that sound is a rich \nepistemological tool for understanding and explaining our everyday experiences.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".