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Record W2048801600 · doi:10.3138/sim.2.1.002

McFreedom? Packaging Democracy for Student Consumption

2002· article· en· W2048801600 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Tony L. Talbert

Bibliographic record

VenueSIMILE Studies In Media & Information Literacy Education · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducator Training and Historical Pedagogy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDemocracyConsumption (sociology)Political scienceBusinessSociologyLawSocial sciencePolitics

Abstract

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High school students are increasingly being exposed to the concept of “packaged democracy” in social studies textbooks, curricula, and learning resources. Democracy is defined in pleasing and palatable images that promote the narrow economic, political, and socio-cultural interests of corporate giants. Very little space is devoted to critical thought and analytical inquiry about the differences between popular-democracy (i.e., freedom, majority rule, protection of minority rights, free and open elections) and market-democracy principles (i.e., unrestrained consumption, efficiency, power and access based on wealth and free/open trade). This article examines how social education teachers and students are being offered packaged democracy for mass consumption in two social studies textbooks published by McGraw-Hill.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
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: none
Teacher disagreement score0.010
Threshold uncertainty score0.035

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.003
Scholarly communication0.0050.004
Open science0.0000.003
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.002

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 head0.174
GPT teacher head0.470
Teacher spread0.296 · 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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