Between the therapeutic and the democratic? Mediating disability memories online
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Disabled people constitute the “largest minority in the world” (United Nations 2006). As such, a study of contemporary memory-making practices around disability can provide a crucial lens through which to engage with ongoing issues of socio-economic and cultural marginalization. This article examines two digital memory projects which showcase the life stories and creative outputs of people with disabilities: the Museum of the Person USA (Bloomington, US) and Envisioning New Meanings of Disability and Difference (Toronto, Canada). I argue that a close analysis of these projects illustrates a current tension between autobiographical, self-expressive memory narratives, and those orientated by wider, socio-political claims. Significantly, gendered aspects of disability discourses also work to unsettle the boundaries of what we understand the ‘therapeutic’ and ‘democratic’ to be. At present there is scant research taking people with disabilities’ own testimony and experience as its core sources. The rise of networked technologies and the opportunities this creates for marginal memories to be publicly shared and witnessed therefore provides a compelling context through which to examine the mediation of disability stories online, and the ways in which these memories can act as tentative resources for social justice claims.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.060 | 0.036 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".