The Digital Face of Japan: National Dimensions of the Internet Revolution
Bibliographic record
Abstract
For most Internet users, Japan’s digital face is a muddled mess. Without the proper character software downloaded onto the computer, Japanese web-sites appear on the screen as chaotic, illiterate gibberish. And, for most non-Japanese, even when they can receive the information in Japanese, they can make little sense of it. Only a tiny number of non-Japanese people can read the language well enough to make sense of a Japanese website. And despite the heavy promotion of translation software, there are still no widely accessible applications which make the content and services on Japanese web-sites available for general use. For some Japanese sites, there is an escape: many official web-pages have an ‘English’ button and a minuscule portion offer one or more other languages. The vast majority of e-visitors, having wandered through digital space to Japan, abandon all hope of making sense of the meaningless computer images and scurry back to linguistic safety. As a consequence, Japan’s digital face is largely exclusive to the Japanese, with only glimpses provided to non-Japanese readers.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 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".