Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this chapter, we discuss the constituent concepts of mediation, democracy, and racism/incivility, in addition to how they relate to each other and how they apply to the Canadian context. In doing so, we review the literature surrounding these concepts. The chapter begins by first providing a working definition of democracy as a form of government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Then, we offer a conceptualization and operationalization of mediation, differentiating the term from mediatization and also explaining its relation to racism. Following this, we review the literature on incivility/racism and its impact on democracy with the surprising finding that incivility can, in certain contexts, enhance democratic participation. Next, we explain our interest in empirical critical race theory (eCRT) by contextualizing the concept within the broader umbrella of critical race theory and explaining its methodological relevance to our study. Last, we apply these frameworks to the Canadian context, offering both as a significant addition to the literature on mediation, eCRT, and democracy and also to the literature on political communication in Canada, which is only recently beginning to acknowledge issues of race and racism.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.069 | 0.001 |
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.
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".