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Her life and work illuminate the very essence of her medium.
Suddenly every photograph is for Barthes a memorial; the very essence of the medium is its spectral conjuring of death-in-life.
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Mr. Bailey, whose favorite television show as a child was "Batman" ("I got so excited that my parents banned me from watching it"), and Mr. Barbato, who was partial to the "The Brady Bunch" and "The Partridge Family," said that the current reality craze represented television's discovery of its essence as a medium.
But both Fulton Sheen and Fred Rogers proved that it is not the essence of the medium that controls the effect.
"Behind the bots we find a growing community of practitioners eagerly experimenting with what in essence is not a new medium but a new take on any medium by having it acted out by semi-autonomous characters driven by software, data, chance and wit.
Furthermore, its essence of kitsch -- ceramic medium, bright color and glossy sheen -- lent it a giddy, ironic quality, recalling the Pop artworks of James Rosenquist and Jeff Koons.
What we need is more complex conversations, and sensible policy, about how to minimize negative aspects of digital anonymity while still maintaining the internet's essence as a free-information medium that can benefit society.
Retro Gamers Stuart Hunt wrote in a September 2011 issue that "Maniac Mansion proved that videogames could capture the essence of an entirely different medium and opened our eyes to the wonderful things that happened when they placed their interactive stamp on them".
