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Record W1990670892 · doi:10.1353/vpr.2014.0041

Touchstones and Tit-Bits: Extracting Culture in the 1880s

2014· article· en· W1990670892 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Richard Menke

Bibliographic record

VenueVictorian periodicals review · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPoetry Analysis and Criticism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsParallelsPoetryJournalismGeorge (robot)Bridge (graph theory)Power (physics)LiteratureValue (mathematics)HistorySociologyArtArt historyMedia studiesComputer scienceBiology

Abstract

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Matthew Arnold attacked the New Journalism, but his insistence on the power of the reprinted extract parallels the importance of the excerpt in late Victorian periodicals such as George Newnes’s Tit-Bits . This essay juxtaposes Arnold’s “The Study of Poetry,” written as the introduction to The English Poets (1880), with Tit-Bits (established 1881). Both turn to the excerpt in response to the prospect of textual overproduction and the expansion of mass readerships in the 1880s, a response that cuts across literature and journalism, high and low culture. Indeed, part of the extract’s value was that it promised to bridge these divisions.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score0.058

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0040.004
Science and technology studies0.0040.016
Scholarly communication0.0070.004
Open science0.0000.003
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

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 head0.017
GPT teacher head0.255
Teacher spread0.238 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
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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Published2014
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