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Record W4411278859 · doi:10.12685/bmcct.2025.008

Concretion.

2025· article· en· W4411278859 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueBasel Media Culture and Cultural Techniques Working Papers · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicDigital Media and Philosophy
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersUniversity of CambridgeUniversity of OxfordYork University
KeywordsConcretionGeologyGeochemistry

Abstract

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Taking a cue from, and echoing, the oft-repeated call in media studies to move from studying media to mediation, this keyword-memo suggests concretion as a possible critical term in media theory today. In doing so, it tracks a speculative deep history of concretion, reflects upon the limited kinds of argumentations available to scholars in the field today, and argues that contemporary media studies lacks the vocabulary to deal with state changes, such as those between ideas/ideologies and the materialities of technics. The provocation then is to think with the unifying possibilities that con-cretion might offer us as an agglomeration of conceptual frameworks.

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Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.000
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: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.976
Threshold uncertainty score0.622

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
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 head0.013
GPT teacher head0.244
Teacher spread0.231 · 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