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Agency and Media Reception

Experiencing Video Games, Film, and Television

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Authors:
  1. Susanne Eichner

    1. Medienwissenschaft, Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen, Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany

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  • Publication in the field of social sciences
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Part of the book series: Film, Fernsehen, Medienkultur (FFM)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-10
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  2. Introduction

    • Susanne Eichner
    Pages 11-18

  3. Agency interdisciplinary

    • Susanne Eichner
    Pages 19-52

  4. Interactivity and Play

    • Susanne Eichner
    Pages 53-66

  5. From Media Use to Doing Media

    • Susanne Eichner
    Pages 67-126

  6. Agency as a Mode of Involvement

    • Susanne Eichner
    Pages 127-162

  7. Levels and Points of Agency

    • Susanne Eichner
    Pages 163-174

  8. Textuality and Agency – Exemplary Analyses

    • Susanne Eichner
    Pages 175-217

  9. The Quality of Agency in the Media

    • Susanne Eichner
    Pages 219-226

  10. Conclusion

    • Susanne Eichner
    Pages 227-229

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 231-260
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About this book

What happens to our sense of agency, our general ability to perform actions in our life worlds, 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, communication theory as well as film, game and television theory. It thus integrates agency as the key to understanding ‘doing media’ and at the same time conceptualizes agency as a specific mode of involvement across media boundaries. This approach amalgamates miscellaneous ideas and conceptions such as interactivity, participation, cognitive control, play or empowerment and applies the theoretical considerations on the basis of textual analyses of the films Inception and The Proposal, the TV shows Lost and I’m a Celebrity and the video games Grand Theft Auto IV and The Walking Dead.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Medienwissenschaft, Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen, Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany

    Susanne Eichner

About the author

Dr. Susanne Eichner is lecturer at the Academy of Film and Television, Potsdam-Babelsberg (Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen “Konrad Wolf”) in the department of Media Studies.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Agency and Media Reception

  • Book Subtitle: Experiencing Video Games, Film, and Television

  • Authors: Susanne Eichner

  • Series Title: Film, Fernsehen, Medienkultur

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-04673-6

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-04672-9Published: 30 January 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-04673-6Published: 21 January 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2524-3047

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-3055

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 250

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sociology of Culture, Media Sociology

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