Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract: Canadian theatre criticism will look considerably different in fifteen years than it does now, argues Karen Fricker, because it is already a field in ongoing, radical transition, largely triggered by the global decline in print media and the rise of the Internet. Fricker provides an overview of the shifting dynamics throughout the Western world between critics working for mainstream outlets and independent (and largely unremunerated) bloggers, arguing that new voices are adding dynamism to the field. In Canada as elsewhere, the amount of paid criticism is in decline, and while bloggers have emerged in many markets, they are still considered a less significant source of legitimation by artists and funding agencies than their mainstream counterparts. These changes are nonetheless causing anxiety among mainstream critics, as became evident in the strongly negative reaction of Toronto critics to an attempt by the Factory Theatre to delay the press night of a production in September 2014 in an attempt to favour public and community responses over reviews. Fricker further considers the ethics and practicalities around new forms of critical engagement, including theatre organizations’ hiring of critics and “embedded” or behind-the-scenes criticism, and exhorts theatre scholars to take a leadership role in shaping Canada’s theatre critical future.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".