What lies beyond the gates: media gatekeepers and the framing of welfare news in Canada
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Over the past several decades, public opinion surveys have consistently shown that Canadians have a rather strong distaste for welfare. Conventional wisdom has typically held that one of the predominant reasons for this strong opposition to social assistance policies is the manner in which issues related to welfare and welfare recipients are depicted in the media, but very little is actually known about how, precisely, Canadian media gatekeepers frame welfare. Using an innovative form of content analysis which is capable of defining the predominant frames through which welfare is represented in an almost entirely automated process, this thesis considers all welfare news printed by a sample of Canadian newspapers and the Canadian Press for the period 2000-2006. The levels of coverage given to the eleven most common "frames of welfare" are examined, as are the stark differences between the realities of welfare in Canada and media depictions of those realities.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| 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