Transcultural Careers in the Periodical Press: Fleury Mesplet and Paul-Marc Sauvalle as Transatlantic Mediators
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This contribution addresses transatlantic mediators in the Francophone Canadian press in a twofold way: firstly, in questioning the core concepts of cultural transfer, transcultural mediator, transcultural career, and transcultural biography; and secondly, in presenting case studies on two French Canadian journalists who both were born in France and migrated to Canada after a several-year-long stint in the United States. In fact Fleury Mesplet, a native of Lyon, who worked as a printer and journalist in Philadelphia before emigrating to Canada in order to spread the ideas of the American Revolution and the ideals of Republicanism, and Paul-Marc Sauvalle, born in Le Havre, who, after a three-year interlude as a journalist in New Orleans and Mexico City, became one of the very first French Canadian liberal newsman, were both very influential and even groundbreaking mediators. They seem to illustrate in a paradigmatic way the dynamics of intercultural experiences and the transcultural biographies generating new forms of journalism.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 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".