Bibliographic record
Abstract
Curran, James, Ivor Gaber, and Julian Petley. Culture Wars: The Media and the British Left. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 316 pp. $23. It may have been just one of those interesting coincidences that surface from time to time, but this book's release in North America landed in the same month and nearly on the same day that British lefties were attempting to redefine their world in the current climate of globalization. And it should come as no surprise to those who have followed and studied the behavior of the left in Great Britain that the enemy within proved far more dangerous than the enemy without. It is no secret that leftist thinking has undergone a significant transition from the days of Ramsay Macdonald, Clement Atlee, and Harold Wilson. Their Labour Party, carefully crafted as an alternative to the existing order since the days of Keir Hardie and the Fabian Society, was moving away from those issues that provided a foundation for the trades union movements and the collectivism of the welfare state. The new left was far more interested in issues that focused on race, gender, and sexuality, and the shift would prove to be dramatic and troublesome, both for the party elites and their constituencies. On April 7, 2006, the weekly New Statesman published the results of a gathering of journalists, academics, activists, and students in O'Neill's, a London pub not far from the British Library on Euston Road. The participants were not about to accept Francis Fukiyama's contention that the collapse of the Soviet Union and the success of the United States signaled both the triumph and sanctity of capitalism and the inevitable end of history. As we know, the rise of militant religious fundamentalism has proved otherwise. The group abandoned what they considered worn out sectarian approaches to problem solving, instead encouraging democratic socialists, progressives, and liberals to join together to reshape the global community into a kinder and gentler society. The manifesto condemned leftist thinking based as they stated on a blanket and simplistic anti-imperialism. To the shock of that constituency, the manifesto contained praise for the functioning aspects of American democracy, a surprise that brought plaudits from the likes of Christopher Hitchins. As shall be seen, the Euston manifesto was the result of a long journey from the dark days in urban and suburban London that the three co-authors have articulated. Before beginning our analysis, a quick word about British politics. In spite of assemblies in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom is still very much a unitary state. Unlike the United States, Canada, Australia, and other liberal democracies, Britain has no state governments. …
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.018 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.022 | 0.003 |
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".