Notes Towards an Integrative Agenda and Community Informatics Theory
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Research is at the very core of Community Informatics; and the basis of CI research is a recognition of the dialectical role of networked communities within the contemporary \nenvironment. Where once communities were a necessary and taken for granted element of lived society isolated in themselves and only with precarious links to the outside \nworld, in the modern world it is the external environment which is pervasive and \ncommunities exist precariously and in seized and struggled for spaces within and between \nglobally pervasive and invasive electronic networks. The “Wal-Mart” effect as a model of how the “new economy” and the new technology environment is being deployed is one where there is little space for community and where communities only exist through an act of assertion, will and ultimately struggle and notably a struggle against almost overwhelming odds. That there is an ever-extending structure of such networks both parallel and interconnected through e-governments, ecommerce systems, e-learning structures is a condition of our time and provides the framework and the backdrop for the development of Community Informatics as a critical discipline and for Community Informatics research as one of the tools in these overall efforts in responding to and resisting these encroachments.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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; 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".