No More Status Quo! Canadian Web-Series Creators’ Entrepreneurial Motives Through a Contextualized “Entrepreneuring As Emancipation” Framework
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Abstract
The increasing ubiquity of broadband Internet and the rapid rise and uptake of new online video capabilities and platforms are transforming the ecology of traditional television across the globe, and restructuring its economics, politics, culture, and norms. The Canadian television sector presents a particularly interesting case study given its highly regulated dimensions, acknowledged absence of widespread and consistent critical and economic success, and proximity to the world’s most formidable cultural producer, the United States. Through in-depth interviews with 41 creators and executives active in the production of scripted, Web-first content, this article explores the motives of individuals who choose to enter this turbulent space. Responding to the call by scholars for a more contextualized entrepreneurship studies, the article employs a “contextualized” version of Rindova, Barry, and Ketchen’s (2009) “entrepreneuring as emancipation” framework to better capture the “why” and “who” of production for the Web in Canada. The article demonstrates how Canadian Web creators’ motives to engage in Web-first production can be seen as change-making efforts that directly respond to the problematic structures entrenched in the Canadian television system, and to the dominant norms, paradigms, and patterns embedded in the form of television more generally. The article underlines the value of qualitative, contextualized approaches to entrepreneurship studies by demonstrating that such approaches can reveal often overlooked important details about not only the lived realities of entrepreneurial actors but also the origins of their motives—insights which can be used to more meaningfully inform and shape policy design.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".