How Canadians Communicate III: Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture
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Abstract
D a vid Tara s other factors and conditions to determine how we use and give meaning to popular culture.The book raises critical issues about our uses of myths and stereotypes, how we define beauty, how we deal with our darkest visions, the role of violence in society, how culture is used both to enforce and to push the boundaries of convention and social control and how we express our many identities.The hope is that Contexts of Popular Culture will both illuminate this complex and multi-textured landscape, and become a catalyst for research and discussion.Contexts of Popular Culture is a joint undertaking between Athabasca University and the Alberta Global Forum (agf) at the University of Calgary.The volume emerged out of a conference that brought the authors together for farreaching discussions and exchanges on the emerging trends and meanings of popular culture.We are grateful to the editors, Bart Beaty, Derek Briton, Gloria Filax, and Rebecca Sullivan, for selecting the contributors, for mapping the intellectual terrain, for being exceptional hosts, and for carrying the project through to completion with the highest professional standards.We owe a special debt to Toby Miller, who came as the CanWest Global Visiting Scholar, for providing leadership, congenial company, and stimulating ideas.Gina Grosenick did much of the organizing work with her usual combination of efficiency, smarts, and good cheer.The goal of the agf is to act as a bridge between the University of Calgary and the community by sponsoring and participating in discussions of critical issues and by undertaking focused research and community partnerships.The agf takes great pride in its partnership with Athabasca University and would like to thank President
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 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 it