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Record W2736298062

Şcoala de la Toronto. Contribuţia lui Harold Innis

2007· article· ro· W2736298062 on OpenAlex

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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

VenueDOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 2007
Typearticle
Languagero
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicComparative and World Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSociology
DOInot available

Abstract

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The paper is dedicated to the Toronto School of Communication and to Harold Innis, who is recognized as the founding father of this school even by its most famous representative, Marshall McLuhan. The analysis focuses on the central concept of Innis’ work, that of bias of communication. Innis’ inquiry is mainly historical, meaning that the author seeks to identify the influence of media in creating a time or a space bias. Despite this historical character, the core of his investigation is the bias of contemporary civilization. According to the Canadian author, this bias is a consequence of the monopoly of knowledge created by the prevalence of written press, by its obsession with space at the expense of time. Contemporary civilization is excessively concerned with the present time and obscures both past and future. A certain type of rigidity emerges, accompanied by reluctance to explore and exploit other dimensions then the space-related ones. The paper makes some clarifications regarding the “technological determinism” usually associated with the Toronto School. The analysis shows that this is an oversimplification, since the core of Innis’ work is that only the balance between space and time can provide for the long-term survival of civilizations.

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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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.563
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0090.005
Open science0.0030.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1020.000

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 head0.195
GPT teacher head0.560
Teacher spread0.365 · 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