Speaking as "an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle," Birkerts argues with passion and dismay that modern electronic communication and information technologies have brought our culture to "what promises to be a total metamorphosis.... What is roaring by, destined for imminent historical oblivion, is the whole familiar tra...

The possibilities of information presentation and visitor participation in a museum have been extended through usage of modern information and communication technologies. Within the project Blended Museum we examine how the general visitor experience can be increased by employing novel distributed user interfaces.

The rapid development of modern computer and Internet technologies is strongly connected with creation of the new computational paradigms as well as advanced information systems for secure communication between smart tech devices and humans. One of the reasons for the big progress in modern computer and communication technologies is due to the state-of-the-art achievements in soft computing app...

The recent rise of Instant Messaging systems as a centerpiece of online communication has brought with it many questions about the role this new medium will play in the communicative sphere. As the medium has evolved, it has grown to subsume many traditional communication technologies, merging their individual capabilities. In this chapter, a cross-section of popular and established technologie...