Bibliographic record
Abstract
MOBLOGGING, a blend of the words mobile and weblogging, involves using a PDA or cell phone camera the field to post words and pictures to a personal or business web site. Based on an inherently nomadic medium, moblogging merges the instantaneousness of electronic journalism with the personal point-of-view attributes of journals, diaries, scrapbooks, and soapboxes. If Marshall McLuhan were alive today, might he have quipped that this newest electronic form of street journalism facilitates the news that's fit to Sprint? He certainly would have itemized the ways in which this new medium is now affecting patterns of human perception. Given his proclivity to season observations about the media with literary references, McLuhan might have chosen T.S. Eliot's J. Alfred Prufrock to epitomize a moblogged man whose central nervous system was extended and projected--McLuhan called this extension outered--by the profound organic character of new electronic (McLuhan Gutenberg Galaxy, p.269), which literally and metaphorically threw [his] nerves in patterns on a screen. (Eliot, p.6.) In fact, Prufrock's dilemma is curiously similar to McLuhan's point in War and Peace in the Global Village that We have been rapt in the 'artifice of eternity' by placing our own nervous systems around the entire globe. (McLuhan Global Village, p.177.) McLuhan's notion of outering as it relates to moblogging and its text counterpart blogging is best explained by Mark Federman, Chief Strategist for McLuhan Management Studies at the University of Toronto's McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology. According to Federman, blogging outers, or makes public, the private mind. A digital personality or digiSelf interacts with others without the conventional impediments of time or space. (Federman interview.) Blogs are an instance of 'publicity'--the McLuhan reversal of 'privacy'--that occurs under the intense acceleration of instantaneous communications ... is an 'outering' of the private mind in a public way (that in turn leads to the multi-way participating that is again characteristic of multi-way instantaneous communications). Unlike normal conversation that is essentially private but interactive, and unlike broadcast that is inherently not interactive but public, blogging is interactive, public and, of course, networked--that is to say, interconnected. (Federman Blogging and Publicity.) Moblogging has become the medium of choice for many journalists covering wars, riots, and other visually newsworthy crises because it has three essential elements that members of the press revere. It is portable, uncomplicated, and instantaneous. All one needs is a cell phone camera endowed with wireless Internet access. With the flick of a wrist, a Pulitzer prize-winning decisive might be captured and directly transmitted to a publication virtually anywhere in the world. In this respect, journalists now enjoy much more autonomy. When asked what his father would have said about moblogging, Eric McLuhan replied that, Electric technologies of all kinds make obsolete all of our old bureaucratic institutions, which relate to the world of print and heavy industry. No more is knowledge or information contained in books or buildings: we live every moment in an environment of global information and are ourselves translated into information. (Eric McLuhan e-mail interview.) Prophetically, moblogging complements Marshall McLuhan's decades-old notion that, One of the paradoxical features of substituting software information for hardware machinery is total decentralization. (McLuhan Global Village p. 184.) Additionally, moblogging illustrates his portrayal of electronic technology as having the capacity to store and to translate everything; and for speed, that is no problem. No further acceleration is possible this side of the light barrier. …
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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 | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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".