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Twitter as an Online Counter-Pedagogy to Linguistic Prejudice

2025· book-chapter· en· W4415442641 on OpenAlexaff
Vijay A. Ramjattan

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicDigital Communication and Language
Canadian institutionsInstitute for Christian StudiesUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPrejudice (legal term)Social mediaRace (biology)HegemonyThe Internet

Abstract

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Abstract This chapter critically reflects on using the social media platform formerly called Twitter (now known as X) to combat forms of linguistic prejudice. It specifically considers the possibilities and limits of using Twitter as an online counter-pedagogy to disrupt hegemonic ideas about the English language, especially in terms of race and racism. Although this counter-pedagogy exposes people to underexplored ideas about language, operates as another type of critical scholarship, and helps to create online communities interested in combatting linguistic prejudice, it can also be a target for reactionaries, fail to be properly understood, or even seen, and does not necessarily lead to institutional change. The chapter concludes with some brief recommendations for improving this counter-pedagogy within and beyond the Twitter platform.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.020
Threshold uncertainty score0.065

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.004
Scholarly communication0.0050.007
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0200.003

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 head0.277
Teacher spread0.237 · 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 designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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