Adolescents as consumers of restricted media content: empowering adults as mediators
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Children and youth are a dominant consumer force in the media marketplace and restricted media content is part of the near environment of many adolescents, both at home and in their communities. Yet, little attention has been paid to adolescents as consumers of film, video, DVD, Internet, video games, pay per view, satellite and digital cable television content that has been deemed ‘adult’ or restricted content by government and industry regulators. Using a human ecology framework, this research assess what types of restricted media content 13 and 14 years olds are exposed to at home and in the community, how they come to have access to different types of restricted material, how they regulate their own consumption of sexually and violently explicit media content, what they think is appropriate viewing for themselves. The media environment of adolescents is continually changing with the proliferation of new technologies, and restricted content is pervasively and aggressively marketed to adolescents. Market forces, government regulation, parental guidance, and media in its social context determine what children are exposed to. This research investigates the interaction between these forces and their outcomes for adolescents in the province of Alberta, Canada. Adolescents in Alberta have the highest rates of film, video, and DVD viewing in Canada, as well as the highest saturation of Internet in homes. Alberta's system of film classification (age restrictions on film, video, and DVD) is similar to that of most EU countries, providing a context for international comparison. Findings from this research are critical to policy makers, regulatory bodies, media producers, educators, and parents in establishing practices to protect and educate young consumers. Information about Alberta adolescents’ consumption of restricted media content and how they gain access to it will ultimately affect children and youth by informing the societal forces which govern their media use.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
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 | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".