Audio Journalism: An Epistemology of Bodily Engagements with Sounds
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article highlights the critical role played by the body in audio journalistic epistemology. It focuses on the journalist's “audio body” and its deployment in the creation of documentary podcasts. Highly tuned to both the audible and the inaudible, this is a body at once central to the journalist's investigatory toolkit, at once responsible for the creation of powerful audio journalism that brings listeners into an intimate space with the subject at hand. Foregrounding the role of the body in the processes of audio journalism also highlights the importance of affect and time in journalistic sound-based montages. By way of illustration, three immersive sound pieces that document news production in a variety of media outlets are discussed. So too are the ways that the documentarist and author of this article was required to mobilize and subsequently reflect upon her own “audio body.”
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 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 it