10 Take Off: Mobile Perspectives
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Abstract
Take Off: Mobile PerspectivesWith this chapter, we leave the Montreal-based ethnography behind.In the following, we will travel to or return to Jamaica with the women of this study.Here we look into the mobility process itself that raises questions such as "Which preparations occurred before departure?Who needs to be notified before coming home?How was the traveling process itself?".The experience of accompanying the interlocutors on their homeland travels and returns was a multi-layered, yet, holistic process that involved a broad range of before, during and after communication and interconnected dynamics involving various people, anticipation, moving to Jamaica, on-site experiences, going back and post-travel recollections.As Watts and Urry state, "Mobile ethnography involves traveling with people and things, participating in their continual shift through time, place and relations with others" (2008: 867).Here the ethnography again follows the actual course of the fieldwork, which started in the urban environment of Montreal and then took off via plane from Montreal or Toronto to the Jamaican island.Watts and Urry (2008) identify the traveling time as a 'liminal space' between 'here' and 'there' that needs consideration when researching migratory mobility.This liminal space of traveling brings the anticipations to a climax while pre-communications and preparations are silenced or finished.Moving together with the interlocutors enriched the analysis since a broader understanding of their mobility strategies evolved.Instead of just meeting them at specific points in time, I was part of an entire process.The sites I observed and visited resulted in field notes and photographs.The photographs were again relevant for the discussion of the post-travel recollections with the research partners.Anticipation, memories, and expectations constructed before traveling and returning, strongly influence the 'local knowledge', for example in terms of the ways my interlocutors experience Jamaica, its people, and their (extended) families.As we will see post-traveling, individuals then remember only particular events or situations and tend to forget or overlook negative experiences after some time passes by, which results in recurring travels.In this sense, local experiences altogether influence future travel and migratory intentions as well as future anticipation and expectations.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.025 | 0.002 |
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.
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".