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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Über den Autor
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.
Zusammenfassung

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Genre: Recht, Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Film, Fernsehen, Medienkultur
Inhalt: x
250 S.
4 s/w Illustr.
1 farbige Illustr.
250 p. 5 illus.
1 illus. in color.
ISBN-13: 9783658046729
ISBN-10: 3658046724
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 86357375
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Eichner, Susanne
Hersteller: Springer VS
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH
Film, Fernsehen, Medienkultur
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer VS in Springer Science + Business Media, Abraham-Lincoln-Str. 46, D-65189 Wiesbaden, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 210 x 148 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Susanne Eichner
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.01.2014
Gewicht: 0,341 kg
Artikel-ID: 105490532

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