Bibliographic record
Abstract
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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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".