The Performativity of Language in Real and Imagined Spaces: Locative Media and the Production of Meaning
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Harold Innis ’ dialectic of time and space-based media—where time-based media is fixed and material and space-based media is dynamic and mobile—finds a particular synthesis in various forms of spatial annotation whereby messages, notes, stories and histories can be digitally associated with various places. In this paper I examine how two locative projects, Toronto’s [murmur] and London’s Urban Tapestries, accrete stories over time that performatively define places, their use, and their affective associations. This process of creating a spatial ontology is both iterative and emergent; users add and edit content at different stages to create multiple linguistic, descriptive maps of a place which contribute to its overall social meaning. The annotation projects I examine are simultaneously time and space based media, depending as they do on material sites and digital, narrative descriptions. As a hybrid media, they have a great deal to tell us how we describe meeting to places and objects over time, as well as providing parallel insights into the structural processes of meaning-production itself. For Herald Innis, time-biased media are those media which are durable and heavy, resisting the ravages of time. They endure over the centuries and symbolize a triumph over temporal existence, as was the case with the pyramids and stone tablets of the ancient Egypt
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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