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Record W1965164015 · doi:10.1177/146488490452004

From the Margins to the Mainstream

2004· article· en· W1965164015 on OpenAlexaff
Herbert Pimlott

Bibliographic record

VenueJournalism · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical and Economic history of UK and US
Canadian institutionsWilfrid Laurier University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMainstreamIdeologyPoliticsCommunismDistribution (mathematics)Promotion (chess)Perspective (graphical)PublishingPolitical scienceSociologyPolitical economyMedia studiesLawArt

Abstract

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This article examines the mechanisms by which an obscure party journal, published by the Communist Party of Great Britain, moved out of the ‘radical ghetto’ of left-wing publishing into the mainstream of national distribution and debate during the 1980s. Most assessments of left periodicals focus on the ideological perspective(s) or politics of such publications. Few accounts, however, have considered the examination of the more prosaic processes of promotion and distribution of radical periodicals when assessing their success or failure in reaching out beyond their own political and social networks. The mixed success of Marxism Today in the marketplace demonstrates that for the radical press, there is not a clear ‘either/or’ decision for or against the two dominant models: Comedia and Bolshevik. Marxism Today gained advantages by making use of national newsagent distribution and press coverage which, despite the considerable effort expended by the magazine, were not always rewarded.

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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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.665
Threshold uncertainty score0.988

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 science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

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 head0.025
GPT teacher head0.279
Teacher spread0.254 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
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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Citations4
Published2004
Admission routes1
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