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Record W1771827414 · doi:10.3138/topia.14.5

Killing Canadians (II): The International Politics of the Accident

2005· article· en· W1771827414 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Patricia Molloy

Bibliographic record

VenueTOPIA Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMilitary History and Strategy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHEROAccident (philosophy)NarrativeContext (archaeology)PoliticsHistoryEvent (particle physics)Media coverageMedia studiesMedia eventPolitical scienceAmmunitionCriminologySociologyLawLiteratureArt

Abstract

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In April 2002, four Canadian soldiers were killed and eight wounded by “friendly fire” when a U.S. pilot mistakenly dropped a bomb on a live ammunition training exercise in Afghanistan, an event which was subsequently voted by Canadian journalists as the biggest news item of the year. This paper examines two conflicting narratives in the Canadian media which wrote the incident as either a training accident, or the first Canadian combat casualties since the Korean War. We thus have “victims” or “heroes,” depending on the narrative. Drawing on the work of Paul Virilio, I question whether the production of the hero is even possible (or desirable) in an accident of war. The paper also examines the political implications of the event in the context of Canada-U.S. relations and media vilification of the American pilots.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.769
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.306
Teacher spread0.261 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Citations5
Published2005
Admission routes2
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