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Record W3157046354 · doi:10.24908/iqurcp.8409

Google Street View: Public Outcry Valid but Misdirected

2016· article· en· W3157046354 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Aliya Kassam

Bibliographic record

VenueInquiry Queen s Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGeographic Information Systems Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDynamismTechnological determinismDigitizationPoliticsSociologyNothingEpistemologyPublic relationsPolitical scienceComputer scienceLawSocial science

Abstract

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“...fear founded on mere possibility is less helpful than wariness grounded in understanding.” (Monmonier 2002: 2) Emergent technologies which manifest and are popularized by surveillance practices are often promoted in ways that betray biases, conspiracy, or determinism. These approaches do nothing to further an academic examination of such innovations and as such, only serve to perpetuate fear. There is an undeniable technological trend towards digitization and cartography is no exception: Google Street View illustrates this change. Predicting the success or failure of particular products and trends is irrelevant. However, tracking the sociological progress of these technologies permits an invaluable insight into the workings of our social world. These technologies alter our understanding of maps, changing the conditions of our experience from static knowledge to electronic dynamism. In my examination of the mapping tool, I attempt to deconstruct popular (mis)conceptions/perceptions surrounding the application, arguing that the media habitually approaches the application with a lens that either trivializes or sensationalizes its properties and usages. As a corollary of this, mass media tends to provide blanket coverage on fashionable topics, while simultaneously avoiding the examination of potentially more questionable social and political implications.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.008
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.045
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.032
Threshold uncertainty score0.106

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.045
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0040.004
Science and technology studies0.0060.014
Scholarly communication0.0200.025
Open science0.0030.010
Research integrity0.0060.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0320.023

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 head0.191
GPT teacher head0.405
Teacher spread0.214 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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