The representation of disability by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) during the 2004 Summer Paralympic Games
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of this project was to explore how the Canadian Paralympic athlete was represented by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and to consider the potential implications of these representations. This project used critical disability theory as its theoretical orientation. Garland-Thomson's (2000) work described four visual modes used to construct images of disability and relationships of power. Qualitative analysis was performed by analysing imagery, audio, and production techniques to determine the construction of specific codes of representation. Samples were selected from CBC's television coverage of the XII Paralympic Games. The analysis indicated the dominant code was athletic. This representation although desirable constructed a uni-dimensional representation that denies human complexity and creates negative repercussions for people with impairment who cannot or do not wish to be athletic. Uni-dimensional representations were reserved almost exclusively for female athletes while male athletes were represented more often and more favourably. Bodies that appeared more 'normal' or less impaired continued to be favoured, reinforcing the dominance of able-bodied, male hegemony.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".