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Click the headline to learn more and listen to a four-minute audio. '; syndicate.index++; syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'MIT gathering considers: Can participatory media seed participatory democracy? '; // syndicate.article_url[ syndicate.index ] = 'http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Beyond-broadcast'; syndicate.article_url[ syndicate.index ] = 'http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/cat_index_103.shtml#552'; syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Feb 24, 2007'; syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'At least 400 people gathered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to consider how the participatory media introduced by Internet technology will affect participatory democracy. For notes of sessions and links to blogger reports go to the Media Giraffe wiki ---- > '; syndicate.index++; syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Media Center and Institute for New Media Studies offer site with 22 essays on "digital storytelling"'; // syndicate.article_url[ syndicate.index ] = 'http://www.mediacenter.org/digitalthink/'; syndicate.article_url[ syndicate.index ] = 'http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/cat_index_114.shtml#341'; syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Nov 15, 2005'; syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Tom Regan of the Online News Association reports that Nora Paul\'s Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota, and Andrew Nachison\'s Media Center at the American Press Institute has launched a new project, called "Digital Think". It\'s a collection of essays written by 22 interesting new media/digital media producers, educators, artists, journalists. There is a gateway website and a book version. To launch directly, click HERE. INMS hopes to add more to the website and possibly do a new collection of essays next year.'; syndicate.index++; syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Digital paper slims down and moves closer to commercial viability'; // syndicate.article_url[ syndicate.index ] = 'http://news.com.com/E-paper+moves+from+sci-fi+to+marketplace/2100-1008_3-5933554.html'; syndicate.article_url[ syndicate.index ] = 'http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/cat_index_114.shtml#334'; syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Nov 6, 2005'; syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'After a decade or more of development "electronic paper" -- (also known as digital paper) -- an ultra-thin plastic sheet containing tiny particles which respond to electric charges to create images -- appears to be getting closer to commercial viability. Observers think this could usher in an era of display devices which can be rolled and folded and read in sunlight. 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