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Record W4412619840 · doi:10.53288/0441.1.32

“There’s Nothing Written about It”

2025· book-chapter· en· W4412619840 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenuePunctum Books · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMedia Studies and Communication
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNothingComputer sciencePhilosophyEpistemology

Abstract

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2005-2007 was a unique moment in games studies in that it represented a flourishing of specific venues for research in the area, including the launch of the journals Games and Culture and Loading…. The Canadian Journal of Game Studies as well as the Canadian Games Game Studies Association conference. But despite the spike in scholarly and public attention on games in the last decade and a half, we still see moments where researchers seek game studies and proclaim that ‘there’s nothing written about it’. In this article I consider the role of Canadian game studies and its relative lack of citation. The disciplinary ghosts of game studies, I argue, play a key role in entrenching some approaches, questions, and methods as more legitimate, ‘ghosting’ others from the ‘canon’. Troublingly, this continues to include critical race studies, feminist approaches, and queer theory, despite their key role in both historical and contemporary game studies. I therefore conclude this essay with a provocation inspired by Harrison (2018) to ‘fuck the canon’ in games.

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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)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.904
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.040
GPT teacher head0.297
Teacher spread0.256 · 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