Truth, Justice … and the Austrian Way? Opposing Political Agendas, Duelling Sovereignties, and Austrian Superheroes
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The earliest comic-book superheroes became metonyms of the American nation-state at war; as a result, until recently superhero comics remained unpopular in German-speaking Europe, where their quasi-nationalist aspects and violent methods were reminiscent of fascism. The global success of superhero films, however, has promoted the acceptance of superhero comics and the introduction of homegrown equivalents in Germany and Austria. In the latter, superheroes have become proxies in the conflict between competing visions of national sovereignty. Both the far-right Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPÖ) and the Sozialdemokratische Partei have campaigned using superhero comic books; so too has the non-partisan Österreichische Integrationsfonds. And now a commercial comic, Austrian Superheroes, portrays its heroes as outsiders in the service of a European Union depicted as a guarantor of order, rebuking the FPÖ’s right-wing nativism.
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.027 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| 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".