Wildfire: A Reader

The Resourceful Reader The Resourceful Reader :

for Communication Yearbook 15. The resourceful reader:Interpreting television characters and narratives The television viewer is an active interpreter, not a passive recipient, of programs. Viewers'interpretations of programs mediate television effects. The 'active viewer' is accepted by bothtraditional and critical mass communication scholars, allowing for a possible convergence<lb...

Anatomy of a Page Reader

An experimental machine vision system that reads pages of printed text is described, with particular attention to features which permit it to cope with a variety of languages. We have attempted to uncouple sources of variation in the input irnaging defects, page layouts, sizes of text, symbol sets, font styles, linguistic contexts, and transliteration encodings so that each can be managed by an...

A Note to the Reader

This paper is organized in three almost self contained sections. The first section is a popular discussion on the number of crosswords based on a remark of Shannon made in [Shannon, 1948]. Although never published, the ’back-of-the-envelope’ calculation we present is believed to be the same argument Shannon had in mind when he wrote the passage on crosswords. The second section presents the Hau...

HUMAN NATURE A Critical Reader

Reader Engagement

This is a work-in-progressproject.The purpose of this research is to help increasing the readers’ level of engagement using a multimedia approach. Previous studies have shown that active reading engage readers to keep reading as an interactiveway of learning. However, reading is a very personal experience for each reader due to readers’ understanding and different points of views. This project ...