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Record W2805945137

Digitizing the Banal: The Politics of Recovery in Periodical Studies

2017· article· en· W2805945137 on OpenAlexaffabout
Hannah McGregor

Bibliographic record

VenueSummit (Simon Fraser University) · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicData Analysis and Archiving
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoliticsHistoryArtMedia studiesPolitical scienceSociologyLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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On Banalityetween 1910 and 1921, the Winnipeg-based household magazine The Western Home Monthly opened most issues with an informal editorial feature called "A Chat with Our Readers."Written in an anonymous editorial "we" that often expanded to include the reader, this section was characteristic of the magazine's combination of domestic coziness and explicit nationalism, hailing a public of western Canadians with an investment in the national project.An example is how frequently the chat describes the magazine's readership through the metaphor of the household.The January 1920 chat, for instance, features a letter from "a lady reader" that places the magazine physically within the home: "In every farm home in which I have yet been I have seen The Monthly, and the farmer of to-day is 'no slouch' when it comes to home comforts, as I daresay you know."The letter goes on to link the magazine to other comforts of the home, such as pianos and "laborsaving devices in the kitchen" (3).In May 1920, the editors extended this metaphor of their readership as a household:Every subscriber represents a good Western home -the very home that looms to-day as Canada's brightest hope.Every additional name to our subscription list strengthens the bulwark of home builders, home dwellers and home lovers.If you agree with us that the home is the magnet towards which all good things should gravitate, then you are in a special sense eligible for membership in the great family that constitute our readers. . . .Our mail box, in a very special way, reflects the minds of our readers -and how the striving for an ideal home is the predominating thought. . . .What is your home problem?If you are a woman with home interests read the Woman's Quiet Hour, Young Woman and Her Problem, Mother's Section, Kitchen Department, Home Doctor, Fashions and Patterns, etc.The young folks and even the small chil-

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.903
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.040
GPT teacher head0.293
Teacher spread0.253 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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