Bibliographic record
Abstract
Using French philosopher Gabriel Marcel's influential work on technology as a jumping point, this paper takes a critical look at the nature and power of 21st century's major technique of mass communication. Marcel discusses the topic in his book Man and Mass Society using the time‐sensitive example about radios, used as a major means to propaganda and human degradation back in WWII. But what would he say about internet in the 21st century? Mass media is so powerful in Marcel's opinion that it "usurps a prerogative which looks like a distorted analogue, a caricature, of divine omnipresence". Although Marcel's worry about communication technique that "what starts off as a collection of means […] become the centre, the focus, of an obsessive cult" is a valid one, internet's problem of "too much information" and its innate interactivity are effective antidotes to many of such dangers. The impossibility of propaganda in the 21st century, the active membership and impotence of an individual internet user, and the non‐uniformity of internet are also discussed in depth.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 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".