[ecrea] New book: Agency and Media Reception. Experiencing Video Games, Film, and Television

New Book:

Agency and Media Reception. Experiencing Video Games, Film, and Television.
by Susanne Eichner

About the book:
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, 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/.

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


Reihe: Film, Fernsehen, Medienkultur. Springer VS, 2014.
1. Auflage 01/2014, 250p, ISBN 978-3-658-04673-6, 41,64 EUR (D)
Springer-Link: 
http://www.springer.com/new+%26+forthcoming+titles+%28default%29/book/978-3-658-04672-9


Dr. phil. Susanne Eichner
mobile +49 (0) 172 - 9488369
http://saneichner.wordpress.com/

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Neu erschienen:
Susanne Eichner: Agency and Media Reception. Experiencing Video Games, 
Film, and Television.
Reihe: Film, Fernsehen, Medienkultur. Springer VS, 2014.
1. Auflage 01/2014, 250p, ISBN 978-3-658-04673-6, 41,64 EUR (D)
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