Internet use genres
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Public policies across the world have focused on providing Internet access to residents of rural areas. This chapter looks at data from previous studies in three countries at a different point in their digital inclusion process highlighting the ways rural inhabitants appropriate Internet technologies. The findings propose a conceptual tool for the analysis of the characteristics of these appropriations and their link to the specific social context in which they emerge: Internet use genres. This concept integrates ideas from the critical theory of technology, sociological phenomenology, and genre theory. By revisiting the results of independent studies conducted in rural areas of Canada, Chile, and Vietnam, we trace the emerging Internet use genres to elements of the participants’ relevance systems and socio-biographical situations that in turn are shaped by the geographical, socio-economic, and cultural conditions of their communities. The parallels between the use genres evolved by rural residents despite the distinct social and political profiles of the home societies is an indication that Internet use genres respond to recurring local situations and are highly malleable and subject to user agency. Being able to identify, classify, and anticipate their evolution provides researchers and policymakers with a nuanced understanding of Internet adoption processes in rural communities. It also opens possibilities for exploring the inclusion of end-users’ choices in technological development.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.005 |
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".