The Echoes of McLuhan: Media Ecology, Semiotics and Interfaces
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
After briefly describing the theories of mass communication, the article focuses on the emergence of two new ways of understanding the media in the 1960s: the semiotics and media ecology. While appearing at first glance as antagonistic approaches, while semiotics focused on the ideological content of the messages, the media ecology despised content to assert the importance of the media, the article aims to create a dialogue between two the highest representatives of both theories: the French Roland Barthes and Canadian Marshall McLuhan. The hypothesis of the article is that the development of a semiotic (applied) interfaces, inspired by the approach of Umberto Eco, would find a meeting point between the two theoretical traditions and from there, display a more complete analysis of current transformations that are occurring in media ecology.
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| 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