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Record W3084969798 · doi:10.14288/cjur.v5i1.188915

‘Post Truth’ Politics: The New Threat to Democracy

2016· article· en· W3084969798 on OpenAlexaff
Allison Fettes

Bibliographic record

VenueOpen Collections · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMisinformation and Its Impacts
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoliticsDemocracyGlobePolitical scienceState (computer science)VotingPolitical economyPopulismMedia studiesLawSociologyPsychology

Abstract

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On Tuesday, November 8, 2016, the United States elected Donald Trump, a reality TV business mogul, over Hillary Clinton, the former United States Secretary of State, as their 45thPresident. The impact of this election has been felt across the globe due to the bizarre campaigning of both Clinton and Trump including accusations of illegal activity, and frequent outright lies communicated to the public through candidate speeches, social media, and news agencies. It seems that the rise of populist voting activity and, what has been dubbed ‘post-truth’ politics played a significant role in Trump’s win. By looking at the semiotic aspect of political communication, political marketing, and the idea of ‘illusory democracy’, I argue that ‘post-truth’ politics are a threat to western democracy.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.011
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.024
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.023
Threshold uncertainty score0.059

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0110.024
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0120.044
Scholarly communication0.0230.024
Open science0.0010.010
Research integrity0.0080.013
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.002

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 head0.034
GPT teacher head0.342
Teacher spread0.308 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

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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