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Record W2023708141 · doi:10.3828/sfftv.2013.26

The popularity of time travel in contemporary media

2013· article· en· W2023708141 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Aybige Yilmaz

Bibliographic record

VenueScience Fiction Film & Television · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAsian Culture and Media Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPopularityConsumerismNarrativeAestheticsTime travelIdeologyTrope (literature)Popular cultureIndividualismSociologyIdentity (music)Media studiesAdvertisingPoliticsArtPsychologySocial psychologyLiteraturePolitical scienceLawComputer science

Abstract

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This article is concerned with the growing presence of time-travel narratives in popular culture. It explores the ideological function of this popular sf trope through a close examination of a generically hybrid time-travel/dramedy series, Being Erica (Canada 2009-11). With its protagonist Erica repeatedly sent back in time by her therapist to confront and fix her regrets from her past, the show explores, playfully, the integrity and reliability of personal memory and identity. However, this article argues that time travel also serves another and more significant function in the show: it responds to the two highly powerful discourses of contemporary living, namely individualism and consumerism.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation 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 score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.032

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.005
Science and technology studies0.0040.005
Scholarly communication0.0090.005
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.302
Teacher spread0.271 · 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 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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