Athletic, but ambivalent, and in brief: Canadian newspaper coverage of sledge hockey prior to Vancouver 2010
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study analyses the media coverage of sledge hockey in Canadian newspapers prior to the Vancouver Paralympics. Articles on sledge hockey over a period of 10 years were identified through a search of a full-text newspaper database. Quantitatively, there was little coverage (562 articles over the time frame), and very few had depth (63). The overall thematic structure of sledge hockey coverage could be characterized as ‘athletic, yet ambivalent’. The physicality of the game and players' athleticism were highlighted, but there was a heavy explanatory frame, meaning the differences from ‘mainstream’ hockey were stressed. Further, there was some evidence of the supercrip discourse, with attendant aspects of focusing on the disability and the athlete's struggle against it, rather than focusing on the sporting elements. Considering this, the coverage of sledge hockey at the Vancouver 2010 Paralympics can really be considered a precedent in certain ways.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.008 | 0.014 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
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.
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".