Bibliographic record
Abstract
That the 2012 Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences censored the Bonfire of the Humanities, a student-produced alternate reality game, apparently in order to preserve the reputations of its invited speakers and host universities is an alarming incident worthy of further inquiry and censure by Canada's scholarly and artistic communities. Curiously, the justification provided for censoring the game echoes the ethical arguments advanced by scholars and designers of pervasive games who warn that non-player bystanders are at risk of confusing games with reality. This essay considers the case in relation to Jacques Rancière's ethics of recognition. I argue that pervasive gamers should stop disguising their activities to protect bystanders, and begin instead to recognize non-players as equally capable of negotiating the blurred boundaries of game and world. The emancipation of game spectatorship creates genuinely political encounters, and opens up new channels for scholarly experimentation and dissemination. Le fait que le Congrès 2012 de la Fédération Canadienne des Sciences Humaines ait censuré Bonfire of the Humanities, un jeu de réalité alternative créé par des étudiants, apparemment pour préserver la réputation de ses conférenciers invités et des universités hôtes, est un incident alarmant qui doit faire l'objet de plus d'enquête et de censure de la part des communautés érudites et artistiques du Canada. Curieusement, la justification invoquée pour censurer le jeu fait écho aux arguments d'éthique avancés par les universitaires et les concepteurs de jeux envahissants, qui préviennent que les non joueurs sont à risque de confondre les jeux avec la réalité. Cet essai prend en considération le cas en relation avec l'éthique de la reconnaissance de Jacques Rancière. Mon argument est que les jeux envahissants devraient cesser de déguiser leurs activités pour protéger les spectateurs, et commencer plutôt à reconnaître les non joueurs comme étant aussi capables de négocier les limites floues du jeu et du monde. L'émancipation des spectateurs des jeux crée des rencontres politiques authentiques, et ouvrent de nouvelles voies pour l'expérimentation et la diffusion des connaissances.
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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 | 0.007 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.020 | 0.045 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.025 | 0.015 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| 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".