Agency and Media Reception Experiencing Video Games, Film, and Television /

• Main Author: Eichner, Susanne (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2014.
• Series: Film, Fernsehen, Medienkultur, Schriftenreihe der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen "Konrad Wolf"
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Religion and culture.; Mass media.; Communication.; Social sciences in mass media.; Social Sciences.; Sociology of Culture.; Media Sociology.

What happens to our sense of agency, our general ability to perform actions in our lifeworlds, in the course of media reception and appropriation? Whilst considering media communication as a special form of social action, this work reconsiders the key concepts of social action theory, pragmatism, co...

Table of Contents:

• Agency Interdisciplinary
• Interactivity and Play
• From Media Use to Doing Media
• Agency as a Mode of Involvement
• Levels and Points of Agency
• Textuality and Agency – Exemplary Analyses
• The Quality of Agency in the Media.