Netscapes of power: convergence, consolidation and power in the Canadian mediascape
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Grounded in a study of the Canadian mediascape, this article argues that trends toward media ownership consolidation are having a fundamental impact on broadcasting and the evolution of cyberspace as a whole. I argue that current trends reflect the rise of what we can call ‘Machiavellian media’ - communication and information systems saddled with three tasks: building the information society; populating cyberspace with workers/citizens/users; and projecting the ‘brand image’ of nation-states on a global plane. The article critiques the notion that new media, especially the internet, are disruptive technologies. Among other things, cyberspace is a class-divided space. More than this, though, networks - the basis of many ‘new media’ - are powerful entities and those who control them influence content providers’ access to people and people’s access to content. The article also analyzes three other factors that are affecting the evolution of networks and cyberspace: attempts to design ‘netscapes of power’, the privatization of cyberlaw, and ‘walled garden’ strategies. Together, these strategies seek to change the Internet into a mainly ‘read-only’ medium and to cybernetically integrate audiences, content and all organizational resources into a self-referentially enclosed information system governed by multimedia conglomerates’ need to defend their investments in a model of media evolution that has, at best, weak cultural foundations.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 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 it