By Simon Parkin December 1, 2015 Kids who grew up playing early computer games are now old enough to consider, from middle age, how the medium shaped their lives.
As water originating from rain and snow is the main medium shaping soil processes and transport of minerals, particular attention has been paid to variations in atmospheric precipitation during the analyzed time period.
His latest effort, "Republic.com," is exceptionally well timed, examining the important political questions surrounding a medium that increasingly shapes the way we think.
But it was something that had been developing for quite a while, by my lights, in the medium that most shaped the cultural diet of my 20s.
At the first class in the program, the instructor, Karen Curlee, gets her students up and moving pretty quickly, making high shapes, medium shapes, low shapes and curvy shapes with their bodies.
But with their vast and often uncontested reach and influence over populations beyond urban centers, which as a rule have less access to independent sources of information, state television is the medium that shapes the views of audiences that typically represent the authoritarians' core base of support.
But he was also one of those rare writers who decisively shaped the medium in which they work.
They did not expect their pictures to be seen in art galleries, but "for three quarters of a century, Hungary's brilliant and pioneering photographers helped to shape the medium all over the world".
The Gamergate controversy, which kicked off last August, is a sort of leaderless online protest against suspected cronyism and corruption in games journalism, but its "enemies" are often progressive industry figures who are suspected of wanting to censor and re-shape the medium.
