Bibliographic record
Abstract
Rogers Hometown Hockey emotionally regulates and expresses sports fandom through colonial logics. The program’s pre- and post-NHL game segments tell stories of a nation where “small” towns build the right character to create elite hockey players (and assumes that this is the peak of Canadian accomplishment) and is “proof” they also create the ideal citizen. Using Sara Ahmed’s (2004) concept of affective economies and data collected from a season of Hometown Hockey broadcast, I argue that it invests hockey, traditionally a warm affect for many Canadians, with the colonial myth of the white settlers’ struggle to make a life for themselves in the untamed wilderness. Rare episodes which deal with racism (almost always in the past) are linked to a current or recent NHL player’s appearance on the show. Anyone can play hockey, but the very act of playing hockey is presented on Hometown Hockey as proof that the white settler state is heartwarmingly “good” at its core. The emotional investment in this mythic past creates negative emotional reactions in many settlers to ideas of decolonization. By presenting hockey in this way on TV, it politicizes the sport to make imagining a better nation difficult.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".