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Record W2040272647 · doi:10.1177/1532708607305124

The Face of a Terrorist

2007· article· en· W2040272647 on OpenAlexaff
Karen Engle

Bibliographic record

VenueCulture Studies &#x2194 Critical Methodologies · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicTerrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Windsor
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTerrorismArgument (complex analysis)Face (sociological concept)Identity (music)Government (linguistics)The InternetSociologyDegeneracy (biology)Media studiesPolitical scienceAestheticsLawSocial scienceArtPhilosophyComputer scienceLinguistics

Abstract

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This article takes up one of the questions posed by the U.S. government in the wake of September 11, 2001: What does a terrorist look like? Using Internet images of Osama bin Laden that have been circulating online ever since Bush named him as the prime perpetrator behind 9/11, the author explores the techniques and conventions of identifying an Other, with reference to historical practices within the United States. Significantly, all of the images presented here (and these images represent a small percentage of what can be found online) are hypersexualized and rely on tropes of primitivism and misogyny to signify degeneracy and effeminacy. The author's argument here consists of examining the ways in which racialist discourses combine with sexism and fascism in both the official and popular imaginings of the terrorist identity.

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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)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.020
Threshold uncertainty score0.026

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0200.023
Scholarly communication0.0110.009
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0040.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.176
GPT teacher head0.500
Teacher spread0.324 · 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 designQualitative
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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Citations4
Published2007
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