Drama is the Cure for Gossip: Television's Turn to Theatricality in a Time of Media Transition
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines a number of currently airing television dramas and comedies (Gossip Girl, Mad Men, In Treatment, and Glee) that depict theatricality – live performance – as a means by which characters achieve self-realization and authenticity. Television today may be interested in presenting theatricality as what Michel Foucault calls a “technology of the self” as a way to distinguish TV from the Internet. The Internet is largely comprised of gossip, and social media demand that all of us carefully safeguard our online reputations, lest we fall victim to unfounded rumours posted by anonymous users. Contemporary television narratives offer the fantasy of “easy identity,” as characters spontaneously discover their “real selves” by engaging in theatrical performances and clearly communicate who they “really are” to others, with only positive results. Television thus uses theatricality as a means of establishing its ongoing appeal in an Internet era.
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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
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| 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) | 0.000 | 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