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Record W4401616487 · doi:10.18254/s207987840030463-8

The Political Message of Marshall McLuhan

2024· article· en· W4401616487 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueIstoriya · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMedia, Communication, and Education
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoliticsPolitical scienceSociologyHistoryLaw

Abstract

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Marshall McLuhan’s media theory and philosophy of history are considered as a political phenomenon of the 1950—1970s. His contribution to the development of political technologies, analysis of the influence of the media on democratic institutions, popularization of the Western supremacy in figurative, metaphorical, and cultural studies’ forms allow classifying the Canadian sociologist as a notable ideologist of the Cold War, along with propagandists of mass consumer society, mass culture and convergence. Choosing the communication criteria as the defining to the past and modern status of states, McLuhan rejected the dogmas of Marxism and considered the USSR to be a lagging country, despite the recognition of Soviet achievements in science and technology (Sputnik, space). He foresaw a “beyond-systems”, planetary future of the “global village” in the “era of electronics”, escape from bipolarity, a diverse and conflictual and at the same time general “electric” coexistence of countries beyond boundaries. McLuhan’s research of the negative effects of the media on mass consciousness and people’s behavior is less acknowledged than his predictions of the worldwide computer network. He supposed that the influence of the media on politics might increase to the extent when reality could be replaced by computer-generated and suggested responsible and preventive state regulation of the informational field.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.943
Threshold uncertainty score0.446

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.037
GPT teacher head0.374
Teacher spread0.336 · 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