Book Reviews
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Understanding the human condition in the computational age/review of Sherry Turkle’s books The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit , Sherry Turkle (1984) New York: Harper Collins, 388 pp., ISBN: 9780246125682, h/bk, $115.52, p/bk, $3.90, Kindle, $19.24 Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet , Sherry Turkle (1997) New York: Touchstone, 352 pp., ISBN: 9780684833484, p/bk, $14.07, Kindle, $9.99 Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other , Sherry Turkle (2011) New York: Basic Books, 400 pp., ISBN: 9780465093656, h/bk, $3.84, p/bk, $12.23, Kindle, $11.99 Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in the Digital Age , Sherry Turkle (2015) New York: Penguin Press, 448 pp., ISBN: 9780143109792, h/bk, $9.94, p/bk, $13.08, Kindle, $1.99 Drugs & Media: New Perspectives on Communication, Consumption, and Consciousness , Robert C. MacDougall (ed.) (2011) New York: Continuum, 368 pp., ISBN: 9781441134929, p/bk, $42.95 Naked Politics: Nudity, Political Action, and the Rhetoric of the Body , Brett Lunceford (2012) New York: Lexington Books, 190 pp., ISBN: 9780739167090, h/bk, $88.00, ISBN: 9780739177020, e/bk, $83.50 Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to ‘Star Wars’ , Camille Paglia (2012) New York: Vintage Books, 202 pp., ISBN: 9780307278029, h/bk, $17.53, p/bk, $15.16, ePub, $12.99 On Reflection: An Essay on Technology, Education, and the Status of Thought in the Twenty-First Century , Ellen Rose (2013) Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 170 pp., ISBN: 9781551305189, h/bk, $39.95 Emergence and Empire: Innis, Complexity, and the Trajectory of History , John Bonnett (2013) Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 384 pp., ISBN: 9780773542037, p/bk, $34.95 The Digital Evolution of an American Identity , C. Waite (2013) New York: Routledge, 144 pp., ISBN: 9780415897617, h/bk, $124.00, ISBN: 9781138914681, p/bk, $35.96 Human as Media: The Emancipation of Authorship , Andrey Miroshnichenko (2013) Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, 159 pp, ASIN: B00HLT7H0E, ebook, $3.89 Appletopia: Media Technology and the Religious Imagination of Steve Jobs , Brett T. Robinson (2013) Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 135 pp., ISBN: 9781602588219, p/bk, $12.95 Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy , B. W. Powe (2014) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 368 pp., ISBN: 9781442616165, p/bk, $26.21 Decoding Dust , B. W. Powe (2016) Seattle, WA: NeoPoiesis Press, 162 pp., ISBN: 9780990356585, p/bk, $16.95 A Continuing Education Guide to Teaching General Semantics , Martin H. Levinson (2014) New York: Institute of General Semantics, 53 pp., ISBN: 9780986076497, p/bk, $9.95, Kindle version, $9.99 The Reader in the Book: A Study of Spaces and Traces , Stephen Orgel (2015) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 171 pp., illustrated, ISBN: 9780198737568, h/bk, $36.68, ISBN: 9780198737551, p/bk, $24.50, ePub, $23.28 The New Science of Communication: Reconsidering McLuhan’s Message for Our Modern Moment , Anthony M. Wachs (2015) Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 222 pp., ISBN: 9780820704876, p/bk, $25.00 Human Replay: A Theory of the Evolution of Media , Paul Levinson (2017) New York: Connected Editions, 299 pp., ISBN: 9781561780624, p/bk, $19.99, Kindle edition, $9.99 (Reprint of Levinson, Paul, 1979, Ph.D. dissertation, New York University) Wasting Time on the Internet , Kenneth Goldsmith (2016) New York: Harper Perennial, 256 pp., ISBN: 9780062416476, p/bk, $14.99 Mapping Media Ecology: Introduction to the Field , Dennis D. Cali (2017) New York, Bern, Frankfurt, Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, Oxford and Warsaw: Peter Lang, 256 pp., ISBN: 9781433127632, p/bk, $52.95, ISBN: 9781433137822, ePub, $52.95 Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition , Lance Strate (2017) New York: Peter Lang, 258 pp., ISBN: 9781433131219, p/bk, $52.95
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".