12. Experiencing Information: An Early Nineteenth-Century Stroll Along Nevskii Prospekt
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Bowers shifts the perspective from producers onto viewers, and discusses, on the basis of a close reading of visual and verbal responses to a particularly prominent public space (Nevskii Prospekt in St Petersburg in the 1830s and 1840s), aspects of the reception and perception of the urban display of information. Nevskii Prospekt is widely considered Russia’s most well-known boulevard. Bowers utilises eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists’ renderings and writers’ sketches which generate ‘snapshots’—in a sense—of the street’s life, giving insight into its appearance before the development of photography. In particular, she uses Sadovnikov’s Panorama as a case study to enable close observation of the minutiae of shop signs, their placement, arrangement, contents, and aesthetic, harking back to Franklin’s investigation into the Russian graphosphere in chapter 11.
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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 | 0.002 | 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 | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.033 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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