From “Cafeteria Stereo System” to the Airwaves: The Evolution of Cape Breton University’s<i>Caper Radio</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper illustrates that campus radio continues to be relevant within the Canadian media ecosystem. Because of the unique commitments of campus-community radio, this sector constitutes an important part of the Canadian broadcasting ecosystem. In July 2019, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission licensed Caper Radio as a campus broadcaster located in Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton University. This marked a milestone in the evolution of a broadcaster that started as a cafeteria stereo system in the 90s and which enjoys cultural significance within the local creative arts milieu. Within the context of Canadian broadcasting policy and regulation, this article draws on archival data and semi-structured interviews to account for Caper Radio’s evolution. It argues that Caper Radio has historically existed on the margins not just of the broadcast spectrum but also within its host university. However, as its recent licensing and shift towards more engagement by institutional stakeholders show, Caper Radio continues to be relevant as a campus broadcaster. The history of Caper Radio contributes to the literature on campus broadcasting in Canada.
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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 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
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".