Author-reader relationship at the site of the work

Within the format of a critical exegesis and four original works of extended prose fiction, this thesis explores the interaction between the author and reader and argues that literary meaning is the outcome of shifts of power between these two entities. It concludes that because these shifts in power are orchestrated by the author, the author is relevant to understanding how meaning is produced.

Stardom and celebrity : a reader

Contents :

* Introduction: what' in a reader? / S. Redmond and S. Holmes
* Star and celebrity culture : theoretical antecedents
* The analysis of fame : understanding stardom
* Fame
* remember my name? : histories of stardom and celebrity
* Producing fame : 'Because I'm worth it'
* Made in culture : star and celebrity representations
* Consuming fame/becoming famous : celebrity and its audience

Smart RFID reader protocol for malware detection

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a remote identification technique promises to revolutionize the way a specific object use to identify in our industry. However, large scale implementation of RFID sought for protection, against Malware threat, information privacy and un-traceability, for low cost RFID tag. In this paper, we propose a framework to provide privacy for tag data and to provide protection for RFID system from malware. In the proposed framework, malware infected tag is detected by analysing individual component of the RFID tag. It uses sanitization technique for analysing individual component. Here authentication based shared unique parameters is used as a method to protect privacy. This authentication protocol will be capable of handling forward and backward security and identifying rogue reader better than existing protocols. Using this framework, the RFID system will be protected from malware and the privacy of the tag will be ensured as well.

An approach to faulty reader detection in RFID reader network

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is becoming increasingly popular as an automated tool for object monitoring and identification in a cost-efficient manner. RFID systems are made up of heterogeneous components consisting of both hardware and software. RFID components such as the readers are prone to failures with serious consequences to the overall system. Thus, issues such as reliability and dependability of RFID systems are receiving attention recently. This mandates fault management that includes monitoring the health of RFID readers and accessing the RFID reader configurations remotely. Therefore, an approach that detects the faulty readers with the aim to minimize the impacts of the faulty readers on the system reliability and dependability is of paramount importance. In this chapter, the authors discuss an approach to detect faulty readers in networked RFID system environments. Performance evaluation of the approach against other techniques is presented and shows that it performs reasonably well in the presence of faulty readers.

Social reader : following social networks in the wilds of the blogosphere

The social interactions manifest in blogs by the network of comments left by owners and readers are an under-used resource, both for blog pundits and industry. We present a web-based feed reader that renders these relationships with a graph representation, and enables exploration by displaying people and blogs who are proximate to a user's network. Social Reader is an example of Casual Information Visualization, and aims to help the user understand and explore blog-based social networks in a daily, real-life setting. A six week study of the software involving 20 users confirmed the usefulness of the novel visual display, via a quantitative analysis of use logs, and an exit survey.

The reader as audience : the appeal of the writers' festival to the contemporary audience

The contemporary popularity of the writers' festival might appear something of a contradiction, given that such festivals are based around an art form that has been chiefly a solitary experience for the reader for several centuries. Taking the 2009 Eye of the Storm Writers' Festival in Alice Springs as its case study, this article examines the motivations of the audience for participating in community-based writers' festivals. Interviews with audience members suggest that the writers' festival serves a much larger cultural and social role for the audience participant than simply increasing their enjoyment of literature.

Social reader: towards browsing the social web

We describe Social Reader, a feed-reader-plus-social-network aggregator that mines comments from social media in order to display a user’s relational neighborhood as a navigable social network. Social Reader’s network visualization enhances mutual awareness of blogger communities, facilitates their exploration and growth with a fully dragn- drop interface, and provides novel ways to filter and summarize people, groups, blogs and comments. We discuss the architecture behind the reader, highlight tasks it adds to the workflow of a typical reader, and assess their cost. We also explore the potential of mood-based features in social media applications. Mood is particularly relevant to social media, reflecting the personal nature of the medium. We explore two prototype mood-based features: colour coding the mood of recent posts according to a valence/arousal map, and a mood-based abstract of recent activity using image media. A six week study of the software involving 20 users confirmed the usefulness of the novel visual display, via a quantitative analysis of use logs, and an exit survey.