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Record W4402169777 · doi:10.32920/26866567

Watching the Watchdog: A Case Study Analysis of Greenpeace's Detox My Fashion Campaign

2024· preprint· en· W4402169777 on OpenAlexaff
C. William McConkey

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMedia Studies and Communication
Canadian institutionsToronto Metropolitan UniversityUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolitical scienceLawAdvertisingArtBusiness

Abstract

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The absence of CSR legislation in the apparel industry has caused companies to turn to NGOs for guidance on how to navigate social, environmental, and economic issues. This research project presents an in-depth analysis of Greenpeace's Detox My Fashion Campaign, which began in 2011 and set out to achieve zero discharge of hazardous chemicals in the fashion industry by 2020. By identifying the effect the campaign had on the criteria and indicator disclosures of signatories, this study aimed to evaluate the fitness of purpose of signatory campaigns in meeting broader sustainability goals in the apparel industry. The findings showed mixed results when evaluating whether or not signatories adopted a more transparent and consistent reporting strategy in response to the objectives of the campaign. As a result, a fruitful discussion emerged surrounding the true purpose of NGO campaigns by granting signatories the opportunity to engage in virtue signaling and greenwashing.

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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)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.029
Threshold uncertainty score0.058

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.003
Science and technology studies0.0090.004
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0030.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

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 head0.066
GPT teacher head0.379
Teacher spread0.312 · 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 designQualitative
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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