Blistered and Bleeding, Tired and Determined: Visual Representations of Children and Youth in the Miles for Millions Walkathon1
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines images of children and youth taken in connection with the Miles for Millions walkathon, a wildly popular charity event in 1960s and 70s Canada. It argues that as cultural objects, images of children accomplished several things: they delivered potent messages about the country’s present and future, mobilized adults around Canada’s relatively new role in international development, and reassured the nation that the kids were all right. Images of Canadian youth were used alongside those of the sentimentalized, racialized Third World child, a juxtaposition that ultimately helped spark enthusiasm for the walkathon and engender a consciousness among Canadian youth of their own able-bodiedness. The visual culture of the Miles for Millions provides an excellent example of the ‘knowing child’ and of the popular contemporary style of representing children ‘in their own worlds.’ While focused on the semiotics of the Miles for Millions pictorial, this article also explores the possibility of reading the images of youth for what they can tell us about the social history of the event.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".