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Cancel Culture: Leverage Tool in Political Struggle

2022· article· en· W4313496572 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Pavlo Molochko, Daria Hryniova

Bibliographic record

VenueMediaforum Analytics Forecasts Information Management · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAcademic Freedom and Politics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhenomenonPoliticsSocial phenomenonSociologyPolitical cultureLeverage (statistics)Media studiesAestheticsPolitical scienceLawEpistemologySocial science

Abstract

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In recent years, the phenomenon of cancel culture has been gaining traction on social media as well as in real life. Considering the formation of this phenomenon, the authors of the article analyse its emergence and the way it spreads in society. The authors of the article emphasise the fact that cancel culture arose as a means of drawing attention to the actions of individual politicians, committed earlier, but unacceptable in modern society. Gradually, cancel culture has extended from the tool of condemnation on social media to its use in political struggle. The authors of the article analyse cases of politicization of cancel culture in the USA, Canada and Ukraine. Based on the analysis, the authors come to the conclusion that a common feature for all countries is the attempt to reconsider historical events through the lens of cancellation. The attitude towards cancel culture in modern societies is rather ambi-guous. The consequence of this is the appearance of supporters and critics of this phenomenon. Extending cancel culture to the political struggle carries certain risks associated with the need for excessive control over freedom of thought and speech. ‘Cancellation’ is used not only as a tool for manifesting a position on social media, but also becomes a tool in manipulative campaigns and information wars. Meanwhile, conducted studies show that the very appearance of such a phenomenon leads to the fact that representatives of certain groups are not ready to defend their views, if such views are not widely shared by society. That is why the phenomenon of cancel culture needs further detailed study and understanding.

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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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.014
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.019
Threshold uncertainty score0.043

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.014
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0040.004
Science and technology studies0.0080.015
Scholarly communication0.0190.013
Open science0.0010.010
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.279
Teacher spread0.261 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

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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