CREATIVE WORKERS IN PLACE: A PHENOMENOGRAPHY OF CREATIVE WORKERS’ PERCEPTION OF PLACE
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Wider social, cultural, and geographical acceptance of creative class theory has inspired city officials to make cities appeal to creative workers. Creative class literature assumes that creative workers develop similar conceptions of place regardless of geographic location, local context, or how individuals identify with and develop attachment to place, and a comprehensive analysis of the ways people experience space in relation to creative class theory is lacking. Using a phenomenographic research approach, and a framework grounded in theories of place, this dissertation explores conceptions of place among twenty-eight creative workers in Edmonton, Canada, based on the fundamental notion that attracting such people will benefit the local economy. Through a series of cultural probe exercises designed to provoke creative and emotional responses, followed by in-depth interviews, this study revealed that, contrary to the literature, participants described strong attachment to place, a sense of belonging, and a commitment and responsibility to the city. Participants were found to possess both strong and weak ties to social capital; however, place is not a means to maintain weak ties to several social circles.
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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 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".