passive medium

"It flies in the face of how people watch television," he said, "which is essentially a passive medium."

This exposes them to different types of literature, and it surpasses a more passive medium.

And until recently, when ratings began to drop, country radio was a predominantly passive medium geared to an aging, audience that didn't buy records.

No longer is it just a passive medium through which they communicate their ideas but itself a new instrument with seemingly endless possibilities."

This is television gone kaflooey, a mass medium demanding individual analysis, a passive medium calling for an active response.

But TV is a passive medium.

It's not a passive medium.

However, almost all current wireless networks can be viewed as examples of passive bus networks, with radio propagation serving as the shared passive medium.

Movies are a much more passive medium, where the movie itself is telling a story and you, as the viewer, are relaxing and taking that in passively.

Yet it makes some sense when you consider that many of the objects in question don't conform to Euro-American definitions of art as a passive medium of contemplation and exchange.

Or is it the case that, by some inner capacity at these times things depict themselves and, as it were, draw a good likeness of themselves or photograph themselves on a purely passive medium?

The Helmholtz reciprocity principle describes how a ray of light and its reverse ray encounter matched optical adventures, such as reflections, refractions, and absorptions in a passive medium, or at an interface.

For a generation accustomed to equating television with the passive medium that spawned generations of couch potatoes, the PC-TV hybrid begs a rethinking of what the appliance can, and maybe should, be.

Channelisation is curation of digital assets on the web, often by brands and media companies, into continuous flows of content, turning the user experience from a lean-forward interactive medium, to a lean-back passive medium.

A ghost story written on the suggestion of his son, Tim McCann, it tells the story of Simon Guthrie, a passive medium who unwillingly assists departed souls in their crossing to the next world.

While a distributor may need to prove an absence of negligence to establish a defence of innocent dissemination, his Lordship said persons who truly fulfil no more than the role of a passive medium for communication, such as ISPs, cannot be characterized as publishers and hence "do not need a defence".