This article reviews the social potential of digital storytelling, and in particular digital storytelling’s potential to contribute to the strengthening of democracy. Through answering this question, it seeks to test out the relative strengths and weaknesses of two competing concepts for grasping the wider consequences of media for the social world: the concept of mediatization and the concept ...

What are the neighborhoods in this city like? This is a question that movers and travelers ask all the time, and despite the information sources on the internet, there are few neighborhood guides to help people answer it. We describe formative research, including the Twitter Neighborhood TF-IDF map and an interviewbased study of 17 recent movers and travelers. Based on this research, we then de...

Fibrin sheath formation around long-term haemodialysis catheter is a common cause of failed dialysis access. Treatment options include pharmacological and mechanical methods. This paper reports a case of failed dialysis access due to fibrin sheath encasement. Pharmacologic thrombolysis, mechanical disruption using guide wire and catheter exchange had failed to address the issue. Eventually, fib...

PURPOSE To conduct a validation study of a Doppler guide wire for potential neuroendovascular applications. METHODS A 12-MHz, 0.018-inch Doppler guide wire was evaluated in eight swine under various blood flow conditions using two types of in vivo cerebrovascular models (physiologic and arteriovenous shunting). Flow conditions were mechanically and pharmacologically altered. Doppler average p...