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Record W4411179281 · doi:10.3138/cjc-2024-0023

The Dialectic of Broadband

2025· article· en· W4411179281 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Sydney L. Forde

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Communication · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicICT Impact and Policies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDialecticBroadbandSociologyPhilosophyComputer scienceTelecommunicationsEpistemology

Abstract

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Background: Through a critical self-reflection of political economic research studying broadband access and digital equity among marginalized communities, this article complicates the technological fetishism inherent in uncritically praising capitalist expansions into the home. Analysis: Grounded in a critique of capitalist reproduction, this contradiction is contextualized as a false dichotomy rooted in naturalized capitalist logics that appear “inherent” in digital spaces. The process of this naturalization is critically examined, particularly in spaces where scholarly work intersects with the policy realm. Conclusions and implications: This article challenges the notions of praxis that perpetuate conformity to specific epistemological and methodological perspectives within policy spaces and encourages the adoption of praxis through a dialectical relation to theory.

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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)0.010
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.016
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.075

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0100.016
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0080.082
Scholarly communication0.0130.019
Open science0.0010.010
Research integrity0.0040.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

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 head0.008
GPT teacher head0.230
Teacher spread0.222 · 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 designTheoretical or conceptual
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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