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Volunteers/Volunteering

2016· other· en· W3187399688 on OpenAlexaff
Kirstie Mallum

Bibliographic record

VenueThe International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication · 2016
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicNonprofit Sector and Volunteering
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAmateurScholarshipPublic relationsWork (physics)SociologyPersonalityService (business)PsychologySocial psychologyPolitical scienceBusinessMarketing

Abstract

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Volunteers and volunteering make an essential contribution to nonprofit organizations and the development of more cohesive communities. Whereas varied interdisciplinary approaches have presented volunteering as the result of a dominant socioeconomic status or an altruistic personality type, organizational communication scholarship has focused on volunteering as an alternative form of work. Volunteers' efforts can be framed as poor quality and amateur or as a form of personal and professional development. Increasingly, volunteering is blending with work, leisure, and educational practices in other contexts, such as corporate volunteering, voluntourism, and service learning. Although volunteering has been conceptualized as requiring ongoing formal organizational commitment, other forms, such as episodic volunteering and micro volunteering using new communication technologies, are becoming more popular.

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.966
Threshold uncertainty score0.114

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.003
Scholarly communication0.0050.004
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0340.016

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 head0.012
GPT teacher head0.288
Teacher spread0.276 · 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.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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Published2016
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