What if the players controlled the game? Dealing with the consequences of the crisis of governance in sports
Bibliographic record
Abstract
“It is difficult to find anything else in the world quite so badly governed as international sport” (Katwala, 2000). Little has improved since Katwala’s comment, and governance problems are now evident in national sport organisations, professional sports, and educational sport. These problems are related to the effects of globalisation, institutionalisation, and commercialisation on sport; processes and forces that have acted to produce a cultural hegemony – a global sport monoculture in which the democratic involvement of participants is restricted, and which limits what Roland Renson refers to as ludodiversity. When states do not consider sport seriously as a subject of concern for policy and regulation, “Sports … take place in a sort of separate [autonomous] sphere, detached from normal rules and regulations in society” (Bruyninckx, 2011). My work has an ongoing concern with the effects of cultural hegemony on various forms of physical culture, and with examples of resistance to that hegemony. In an attempt to resolve the crisis of governance in sport, I will follow the trajectories of various alternative and grassroots sports in order to speculate what sports would look like if they were truly democratised; in other words, if their form and meaning were controlled by the participants.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".