Bibliographic record
Abstract
Working on One's Reputation – Media Strategies of Indian Patrons The paper is an anthropological study of news-making practices in India. News-making is characterized as an interactive process that is shaped through the coordinated action of journalists and citizens and as such has consequences for the way local (political) life is recreated. The case study interrogates media activities accompanying the controversy about the making of the film Water by the Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta in the holy city of Benaras. The example demonstrates how patrons appropriate newspapers and turn them into instruments for the articulation, circulation and authentication of their claims to fame and importance. By recreating patronage politics in the newspaper ambitious leaders re-shape this element of the Indian political culture. They also create new intersections between the media sphere and performative politics. The emerging public (sub)culture poses potential challenges to established political institutions and can be compared to the efficacy of ‘small media‘ across the globe. Zusammenfassung Diese ethnologische Studie über indische Regionalmedien analysiert den Prozess der Nachrichtenproduktion. Nachrichten, so zeigt sich, gestalten sich durch die ineinander greifenden Handlungen von professionellen Journalisten und Aufmerksamkeit suchenden Bürgern mit signifikanten Folgen für die politische Praxis. Die Studie beschreibt Aktivitäten in “Nachrichtennetzwerken“ am Beispiel der Kontroverse über den Film Wasser, den die kanadischen Filmemacherin Deepa Mehta im Jahr 2000 in Benaras zu drehen versuchte. Eine Analyse der medienrelevanten Aktivitäten von Bürgern zeigt, wie Patrone Zeitungen nutzen, um ihre Ansprüche auf Führerschaft zu zirkulieren und authentisieren. Die Verwendung von Medien durch Patrone verändert dieses typische Element indischer politischer Praxis. Es entstehen neue Schnittstellen zwischen performativer Politik und medialer Öffentlichkeit. Sie bringt Themen und Personen ins Rampenlicht, die zur Herausforderung für etablierte politische Praxis werden können. Im Vergleich zu den Wirkweisen ‘kleiner Medien‘ – wie sie für verschiedene Gesellschaften beschrieben wurden – entsteht ein differenziertes Verständnis für das provokative Potenzial des Regionalmediums.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.019 | 0.010 |
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".