Un mito d'oggi: Roland Barthes e lo sport
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The paper aims to probe the socio-cultural meaning of Roland Barthes’ studies about sports and their communicative impact on audience. To the fore is the relationship between semiology, sociology of culture and communication, in the era marked by the transformation of sports in a contemporary myth, bolstered by media innovations. In particular, the paper focuses on the texts arranged by Barthes for the Canadian director Aubert Aquin who asked the former to help him in the making of his documentary focused on the social dimension of sports. Barthes’ Les sport et les homes (1960-1961) poses as a prosecution of Mythologies (1957). In this sense, the paper outlines a socio-cultural reflection on the social impact of two specific sports, catch and cycling, interpreted by Barthes in accordance with his semiological and aesthetic sensitivity. The main purpose is to demonstrate how sports turned into a real collective show in the era of connected and reticular interactions, marked by the symbolic complexity of our post-modernity. For this reason, Barthes can help us understand the sociological shifts fuelled by the consumer society in the field of mass entertainment that sports keep on influencing and animating.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.002 |
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".