A New Shade of Green: Transferring Political Power and Issue Emphasis on Twitter
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Within the Canadian political arena, the Green Party is undergoing a shift away from its traditional emphasis on environmentalism, as a recent change in leadership has led to greater emphasis on a more diversified political platform. This shift can be recognized in the ways in which the Green Party, and their new leadership specifically, has formulated a change in the framing of their policy priorities in communications with the electorate and the world at large. One essential arena in which this framing shift has played out is Twitter, which functions as an important avenue through which political leadership may directly communicate with the general public. This paper seeks to better understand the difference in the Green Party Leaders’ framing of issues on Twitter, as well as the impact of this new framing based on user engagement with the various types of Tweet. Comparing those issues emphasized by previous leader, Elizabeth May, to current leader, Annamie Paul, and the resulting engagement generated by these various policy frames, may lead to a better understanding of how the public is reacting to the shift that is currently taking place within the Green Party.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.013 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.011 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 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".