From the Natural to the Manmade Environment: The Shifting Advertising Practices of Canada’s Oil Sands Industry
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Background This article uses basic thematic content analysis (n = 80) and qualitative visual analysis to examine how still advertisements produced by Canada’s oil sands industry changed between 2006 and 2015.Analysis The article argues that early industry advertisement campaigns had a strong environment focus with the objective of linking industry’s interest in oil with a visual commitment to preserving, reclaiming, and restoring the natural environment.Conclusions and implications In subsequent campaigns, however, industry is shown to undertake a multidimensional campaigning strategy, the most prominent of which is lifestyle messaging that celebrates oil’s ubiquity in consumer culture. The shift to “selling oil sands without oil sands” highlights the need for scholars to widen the aperture of what is traditionally considered environmental imagery from the natural environment to the human-made environment.Contexte Cet article utilise une analyse de contenu thématique de base (n = 80) et une analyse visuelle qualitative pour examiner comment les announces statiques produites par l’industrie canadienne des sables bitumineux ont changé entre 2006 et 2015.Analyse L’article soutient que les premières campagnes de publicité de l’industrie étaient fortement axées sur l’environnement dans le but de lier l’intérêt de l’industrie pétrolière à un engagement visant à préserver, récupérer et restaurer l’environnement naturel.Conclusions et implications Dans les campagnes subséquentes, cependant, l’industrie a démontré qu’elle entreprenait une stratégie de campagne multidimensionnelle, dont la plus importante est la messagerie de style de vie qui célèbre l’omniprésence du pétrole dans la culture de consommation. Le passage à la «vente de sables bitumineux sans sables bitumineux» souligne la nécessité pour les chercheurs d’élargir l’ouverture de ce qui est traditionnellement considéré comme une imagerie environnementale, de l’environnement naturel à l’environnement créé par l’homme.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 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".