Communication for Social Change in Indigenous Communities; Limitations of Community Radios and Other Proposals: Igloolik Isuma Productions
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Abstract
The radio is the most used means of communication in social change projects in indigenous communities.However, it is not free from problems regarding invisibility, isolation and inbred knowledge.Communities who depend exclusively on this media seldom broadcast their messages outside their environment.They are doomed to a paradoxical isolation within a new international society where most local needs have global causes and solutions.Moreover, its inbred nature makes it difficult for the construction of knowledge networks, which can enrich a culture with foreign elements.That is the reason why it is timely to study the possibilities offered by new technologies to adopt strategies in the field of communication for social change.In this paper we are analyzing the sample from the Inuit film company Igloolik Isuma Productions.It is our intention to describe the strategy used by this private, independent company to become an economic, social and political force of change within its indigenous community since 1990.This objective has been partially achieved thanks to Isuma tv online, which links and offers services and contents to indigenous producers all over the world.To sum up, Igloolik Isuma is a great example of success for experts in communication for social change who are reticent to accept the tremendous possibilities offered by new technologies and hybrid projects based on Internet usage. The Starting Point: the Self-Management of Social MediaThe relationship between communication and human development has been discussed by Everett Rogers,1 Wilbur Schramm2 and Daniel
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
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".