Statues and culture wars. How statues communicatively constitute organizational cultures in conflictual situations
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Statues are said to speak to us, to communicate who we are, and who and what we value—our culture. However, prior research has not sought to investigate the in situ and active role that statues play in constituting organizational culture in general, and even less so in the struggle to constitute organizational culture in conflictual situations. To address this lacuna, using the Montreal School of Communication’s notion of ventriloquism and data drawn from debate concerning whether to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oxford University, or not, the purpose of this article is to demonstrate that statues can be weaponized in the struggle to impose or resist an organizational culture. We thus propose adding a critical dimension to ventriloquism to address the research question: how do statues speak to, and act on, us so as to communicatively constitute organizational culture in conflictual situations?
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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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it