From Public Relations to Mob Rule: Media Framing of Social Licence in Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Background Social licence refers to the idea that corporations and governments require broad public support for resource development projects from affected communities, citizens, and stakeholders. Talk of social licence has become pervasive in media discussions of resource development in Canada and especially prominent in debates around oil pipelines. Analysis This article explores changing Canadian newspaper coverage of social licence over the past two decades. It identifies and analyzes the formation of four distinct “logics” of social licence: corporate, regulatory, oppositional, and conservative attack.Conclusions and implications This analysis provides a more robust framework for understanding how different groups have advanced competing visions of social licence within the public sphere, while illuminating the active role that news media have played in shaping the definition of social licence to fit their own editorial cultures.Contexte « Permis social » se rapporte à l’idée que les sociétés commerciales et les gouvernements requièrent, pour le développement des ressources, l’appui des communautés, citoyens et parties prenantes concernés. Cette idée de permis social apparaît souvent dans les discours médiatiques sur le développement énergétique au Canada, surtout par rapport aux oléoducs.Analyse Cet article explore les changements dans la manière dont les journaux canadiens ont traité du permis social au cours des deux dernières décennies. Par rapport à ce concept, il identifie et analyse la formation de quatre « logiques » différentes : corporative, règlementaire, oppositionnelle et conservatrice attaquante.Conclusion et implications Cette analyse fournit un cadre plus robuste pour comprendre comment divers groupes ont mis l’accent dans la sphère publique sur des interprétations divergentes du permis social. D’autre part, elle élucide le rôle actif joué par les médias d’information dans la définition, selon leurs orientations éditoriales, de ce qu’est le permis social.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.034 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 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".