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Record W4400672950 · doi:10.25071/2817-5344/78

The Internet as A Democratic Hellscape

2024· article· en· W4400672950 on OpenAlexaff
Claire Crawford

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal for the Academic Mind · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSocial Media and Politics
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInternet governanceDemocracyThe InternetSocial mediaPoliticsSociologyCorporate governancePolitical scienceCognitive dissonanceInternet privacyMedia studiesLaw and economicsLawComputer scienceEconomicsSocial psychologyWorld Wide WebPsychologyManagement

Abstract

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This paper applies John Locke's political philosophy to dissect the 2018 Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal, revealing how social media's democratic promise can turn into a profit-driven, unjust digital governance. Locke's Two Treatises of Government serves as a theoretical lens to explore how social media sites, initially perceived as democratic spaces, can devolve into unjust and illegitimate digital governments. The contemporary moment inextrixibly intertwines the Internet and capital, resulting in profit as the driving force behind social media sites. This driving force thus biases digital giants, resulting in a dissonance between the percieved democratizing potential of the Internet and the reality of how these sites operate. By scrutinizing the breach of natural rights and the erosion of user trust, the paper argues that Facebook's actions create what Locke would define as a state of war between the platform and its users. The essay urges digital citizens to be aware of these dynamics so that there can be collective resistance against illegitimate digital governments. With this framework, digital citizens are given the tools to create just communities in the evolving digital lanscape.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.323
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.043
GPT teacher head0.359
Teacher spread0.316 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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