Community Resource Sharing and its Potential for Social Transformation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis studies a community fridge located in Ottawa, Canada, and explores the lived experiences of people who were regularly accessing it. It uses the theoretical framework for emancipatory social transformation developed by Erik Olin Wright to analyze and understand the potential that this novel initiative has for social transformation that moves away from capitalism. This research employed a qualitative case study approach that included interviews with eight regular fridge users, observations at the site of the fridge and at a community consultation for it, and document analysis to understand the background of the fridge better. The interview results included themes that explored motivation and experiences, community, crisis, consumption, the impact of the fridge, and social change. The results of this research when analyzed using Wright’s framework show that the community fridge introduced new potentialities for alternatives to capitalism, but on its own it did not inspire thoughts or actions outside of capitalism for the participants who were not already opposed to it before accessing it. This research concludes by presenting how the community fridge and other sharing initiatives like it could be integrated into and used in a broader strategy of emancipatory social transformation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.042 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.016 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".