Policing the Educational Crisis: English Canadian National Newspaper Reports of the 2012 Quebec Tuition Protests
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Utilizing a Critical Discourse Analysis, this research examines the coverage of the 2012 Quebec Tuition Protests by Canada’s two national English language newspapers. The goal was to uncover what relationships were formed and constituted by media when representing people challenging neoliberal assumptions of payment for continuing education. The result, I argue, is similar to the conclusions of Stuart Hall et al. about the British press’ coverage of muggings in the 1970s: media and the state form a reciprocal relationship in constituting an “ideological state-apparatus.” The difference, however, is that when centered on an issue of pedagogy in late capitalism, new marketized actors and interests begin to emerge in the role of the state. As such, adults who challenge the reciprocity of the market and media – specifically when it comes to assumptions about learning, school, or education – become infantilized; they lack the supposed revelatory truths of the market and violate the norms of what I refer to as new debt politics.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.016 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.007 | 0.011 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.024 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".