From Cultural Nationalism to Regional Development: Examining the Growing Role of Canada’s Provincial Cultural Agencies in the Support of the Nation’s Cultural Industries During the Era of Globalization
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Abstract
Traditionally the study of Canada’s cultural industries has focused on national concerns such as identity, social cohesion, and the threat of American pop-culture. However, a growing recognition exists among cultural thinkers that globalization is displacing traditional nationalist goals with a new regional preoccupation for the economic benefits of culture. This paper develops a proxy market theory that argues globalization is creating a simulated marketplace within the existing federal regulatory framework of competing provincial jurisdictions for the growth and economic benefits of Canada’s cultural industries. Using this theory, the paper examines the positive role of provincial cultural agencies in the production of domestic cultural goods in Canada, and explores how the proxy market can adapt the nation’s cultural industries to the structural changes of globalization through an in-depth case study of a provincial cultural agency followed by a comparative analysis of three provincial cultural policies. The case study focuses on the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC) as a representative case of the provincial agency model; while the comparative analysis explores individual policy strategies adopted by Canada’s three leading provincial cultural agencies: Societe de Developpement des Enterprises Culturelles of Quebec (SODEC), the OMDC, and the Film Development Society of British Columbia (BC Film).
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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