Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis identifies and analyzes media narratives pertaining to the cases of missing and murdered women of Vancouver, published in the Vancouver Sun from 2006-11. Feminist and postcolonial feminist theories are drawn upon to explain the origin and persistence of the dominant narratives as expressions of long-standing societal ideologies concerning marginalized and Aboriginal women in Canada. Employing a frame analysis method associated with critical discourse analysis (CDA), the research accomplishes three related objectives. The first updates the work of Jiwani and Young (2006) by re-identifying the four dominant narratives they uncovered in the Vancouver Sun from 2001-06: police inefficiency; Pickton as the isolated deviant; the house of horrors crime scene; and the persistent grouping of the women victims as Aboriginal. The second research objective identifies and analyzes new media frames in the Sun that emerged after 2006, including: attempts to deconstruct the psychology of the perpetrator ’ William Pickton, narratives pertaining to how to manage the problematic issues surrounding the women victims, as well as those related to what it means to be a deviant woman; readers’
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.680 | 0.419 |
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".