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"Contemporary developments in the book publishing industry are changing the system as we know it. Changes in established understandings of authorship and readership are leading to new business models in line with the postulates of Web 2.0. Socially networked authorship, book production and reading are among the social and discursive practices starting to define this emerging system. Websites offering socially networked, collaborative and shared reading are increasingly important. Social Reading maps socially networked reading within the larger framework of a changing conception of books and reading. This book is structured into chapters covering topics in: social reading and a new conception of the book; an evaluation of social reading platforms; an analysis of social reading applications; the personalization of system contents; reading in the Cloud and the development of new business models; and Open Access e-books. Discusses social reading as an emerging tendency involving authors, readers, librarians, publishers, and other industry professionals -- Describes how the way we read is changing -- Presents ways in which the major players in the digital content industry are developing specific applications to foster socially networked reading."--Provided by publisher

This book deals with participation frameworks in modern social and public media. It brings together several cutting-edge research studies that offer exciting new insights into the nature and formats of interpersonal communication in diverse technology-mediated contexts. Some papers introduce new theoretical extensions to participation formats, while others present case studies in various discourse domains spanning public and private genres. Adopting the perspective of the pragmatics of interaction, these contributions discuss data ranging from public, mass-mediated and quasi-authentic texts, fully staged and scripted textual productions, to authentic, non-scripted private messages and comments, both of a permanent and ephemeral nature. The analyses include news interviews, online sports reporting, sitcoms, comedy shows, stand-up comedies, drama series, institutional and personal blogs, tweets, follow-up YouTube video commentaries, and Facebook status updates. All the authors emphasize the role of context and pay attention to how meaning is constructed by participants in interactions in increasingly complex participation frameworks existing in traditional as well as novel technologically mediated interactions.

"Neoliberalism is most commonly associated with free trade, the minimal state, and competitive individualism. But in this latest stage of capitalism, it is not simply national economies that are being neoliberalized - it is us. Inspired by Michel Foucault and other governmentality theorists, the contributors to this volume reveal how neoliberalism's power to redefine 'normal' is refashioning every facet of our lives. Part 1 focuses on how neoliberalism has transformed how we think about our own achievements and how we understand others, a shift that has profound implications for what it means to be queer, an immigrant, illiterate, disabled, or Indigenous in the twentieth-first century. Part 2 explores how neoliberalism is influencing our ethical reasoning when it comes to our consumer choices and how we approach the environment, whether it be buying yoga pants or a hybrid car. Part 3 widens the lens to examine how a climate of fear and uncertainty is feeding our willingness to surrender our rights and freedoms when facing larger questions of national security and border control. By providing enlightening examples and case studies of neoliberalism in action, this thought-provoking volume not only reveals how we are being constituted as biopolitical and neoliberal subjects, it encourages us to think of the world as more than a marketplace and to open ourselves up to the possibilities of resistance."--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- Redefinition of Dying and Death: A Source of Controversy -- Normative Criteria for Medical Decision-Making -- Origins of Popular Interest in Dying and Death -- Decisions to Treat Critically Ill Patients: Social vs. Medical Considerations -- 2. CONTROVERSY AND THE CLINICAL MENTALITY: SOME METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS AND THEIR EFFECTS -- The Clinical Mentality and Medical Decision-Making -- Perceptions of Controversy and the Treatment of Critically Ill Patients -- Development of Questionnaires and Scales -- Design of Samples -- PART I: CRITERIA FOR DECISION-MAKING -- 3. DECISIONS TO TREAT CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS: SOCIAL VERSUS MEDICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- The Case Histories: An Overview of the Patients -- Prognosis and Type of Damage -- The Role of the Patient and his Family -- Social Potential versus Social Value -- Acute versus Chronic Illness: Emergence of New Norms -- 4. THE TERMINAL PATIENT: TREATMENT OF THE DYING AND THE DEAD -- The Terminal Phase -- Terminal Acts: Euthanasia and Definitions of Death -- Decisions to Reverse Death: Norms Concerning Resuscitation -- Conclusion -- 5. DECISION-MAKING VIEWED THROUGH HOSPITAL RECORDS -- Critically Ill Patients in the Hospital Records: Research Design and Data Collection -- Treatment of Critically Ill Patients: Hospital Records versus Questionnaires -- Non-Private Service Patients: Observations of Treatment -- Mongoloid Children with Heart Defects: Hospital Records -- Conclusion -- PART II: SOURCES OF VARIATION AMONG PHYSICIANS: SOME ORGANIZATIONAL, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL VARIABLES -- 6. CONTEXT FOR DECISION-MAKING: THE HOSPITAL SETTING -- Type of Hospital Setting and Quality of Patient Care: A Review of the Literature