From Cave Wall to Twitter: Engineers and Technical Communicators as Information Shaman for Digital Tribes

This chapter contains sections titled:

• Introduction: The Dawn of the Information Shaman

• The Magic of Metaphor

• The Audience: The Emergence of Digital Tribes

• Quill to Keyboard: The Writer and New Media

• Helping the Reader: Techniques for the Information Shaman

• The Magic of Hypertext Techniques: Journeys at the Speed of Thought

• Conclusion: The Responsibilities of the Information Shaman

• References

• Newspaper Position in The Netherlands

• Managing Information Overload Using an Evolutionary Approach

• A Revolutionary Perspective