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Record W2099279839 · doi:10.26522/tl.v6i1.377

Stealing the Age of Innocence: A Critique of the Commodification of Children’s Culture Through an Analysis of NeoPets

2011· article· en· W2099279839 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueTeaching and Learning · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMedia, Communication, and Education
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCommodificationInnocencePromotion (chess)Function (biology)SociologyOrder (exchange)Focus (optics)AdvertisingPublic relationsMarketingPolitical scienceMedia studiesBusinessLawEconomics

Abstract

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This paper functions as both a reflection on the promotion of digital technologies to children, and as an investigation into the commodification of children's culture, using NeoPets as the primary focus of the exploration. Specifically, the development of the child/user to targeted consumer is analyzed, with a focus on website's marketing techniques. While NeoPets provides a virtual “fun” world that caters to children, another reason to ponder the significance of this on-line community is to better understand how its technological and marketing savvy function as exploitive tools. Moreover, it is imperative to address the lack of policies, in Canada and the United States, in order to affect eventual progressive changes in both countries.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.528
Threshold uncertainty score0.971

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.057
GPT teacher head0.355
Teacher spread0.298 · 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