Doing things differently: contested identity across Manchester's arts cultural quarters.
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Abstract
Observation is made of the contrast in arts cultural quarters of Manchester: the bohemian 'Northern Quarter', with its unofficial arts and independent traders, and the legitimised, and the increasingly commodified, official¬¬ arts and cultural provision in the environment of the South, South West quarter of the city core. The latter has formed organically through the geographical interrelation of key cultural institutions: museums; art galleries; libraries; broadcasting institutions; a conference centre; theatres, music venues and an arts cinema. The modern mythology of the Wilsonian Manchester pop culture, and of ‘doing things differently’ is rooted here and now supports commodification of the area. Here the new £120m Factory arts performance space be built to house the biannual Manchester International Festival. In this official zone commodification of arts and culture and gentrification are leading to selective usage and consumption and pricing now proves prohibitive for many people. \n \nContrastingly, the Northern Quarter houses a community of artists, cultural providers and mainly independent retailers and the area retains a bohemian and creative character. This is reflected in both the nature of the independent retail outlets and arts facilities, and in the creative artwork that adorns some of the buildings in the area. Increasingly, though, rising rents and the threat of property development in the Northern Quarter will increasingly force arts providers who lack funding, and also independent retailers, out of the area. We observe the vibrancy of the Manchester arts culture, but note these contested identities and the threat posed to smaller arts organisations by large-scale speculative property development.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.020 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.014 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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".