©2003 Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses Cybercoven: Being a witch online1
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Summary: Through a case study of one email discussion group, cyber-coven, along with an analysis of a selection of typical Witchcraft web sites, I show how a rethinking of the divide between "virtual " and "real" allows solitary Witches to practice their earth-based religion online. Included in the analysis is a discussion of how divination rites are affected by online practice. Résumé : À travers une étude de cas à l’intérieur d’un groupe de dis-cussion sur le site internet, cybercoven, et l’analyse de quelques sites web s’intéressant à la sorcellerie, je démontre ici comment une réévaluation de la division entre le « virtuel » et le « réel » permet à des sorcières soli-taires de pratiquer leur religion « terrestre » en ligne. L’article aborde aussi l’influence que peuvent avoir les sites internet sur les différents rites de divination. Witchcraft is a Pagan religious tradition which began gaining significant popularity in North America in the 1970s and has continued to grow both in
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.217 | 0.018 |
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".