Continentalizing Canadian Telecommunications: The Politics of Regulatory Reform
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Continentalizing Canadian Telecommunications: The Politics of Regulatory Reform, Vanda Rideout, Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003, pp. xiii, 256 A recent headline in The Globe and Mail, “Labour unrest dogs the telecomm industry,” could have been written at almost any time over the past decade or more. The industry is facing fundamental structural change, driven by new technologies, regulatory reform, and market shifts and management has, predictably, focused on reducing labour costs. For anyone seeking to understand the political economy of restructuring in the telecommunications sector, this slim volume is a valuable addition to the literature. The author traces the story of telecommunications regulation from its origins in the First National Policy to neo-liberal restructuring (up to 2002), with special attention to the impact of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). As a work of history, the book provides a helpful map of major regulatory and policy shifts in the telecommunications sector. In tracing these shifts, the author discusses broader issues, such as the key role of telecommunications in “advanced electronic capitalism” (3) and the conflicts that accompanied the change from “a Fordist telecommunications regime” to a “continental” one (5).
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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 | 0.005 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.032 | 0.025 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.019 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.008 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
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.
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".