A REAL CONNECTION: CROSS-MEDIA YOUTH PROGRAMMING, CRITICAL PEDAGOGY AND THE CASE OF RENEGADEPRESS.COM
Bibliographic record
Abstract
With the work of critical pedagogy theorists Paolo Freire and Henry A. Giroux providing a theoretical foundation, this thesis will examine the youth television show and website renegadepress.com to consider ways in which cross-media youth programming affords reflection, critical thinking or participation in civic life. As an interactive, issues-oriented youth series airing on APTN and several provincial education stations, renegadepress.com fits into a Canadian tradition of educational and issues-oriented children’s and youth programming. By carrying out a textual analysis of the renegadepress, com television show and website, interviewing the creators/producers of renegadepress, com, observing as renegadepress, com was used in a Grade 8 classroom and interviewing classroom participants, and analysing website statistics and usage patterns, this research focuses, first, on the ways that renegadepress, com is designed and used as a hybrid of two media, and second, on how the cross-media format affects the pedagogy that renegadepress.com offers. This research finishes with the conclusion that renegadepress.com successfully invites reflection and dialogue about its issues, though it is not clear that this process of reflection leads to action toward change.
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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 | 0.007 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.028 | 0.031 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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".