Agency as a Mode of Involvement

Abstract

At the core of the present work is the question of the role of agency in the process of reception. Having expounded and elaborated on agency as a crucial and identity constituting capability of performing as influential beings in this world and having outlined and explicated the various concepts of media reception and appropriation that are related to agency, there is enough evidence that agency is a cross-media overarching and comprehensive way of experiencing media texts. Due to these considerations, agency will be established as an emancipated category of media involvement next to other forms of media involvement. This requires some forethought and consideration. Firstly, the conceptualization of modes of involvement in general has to be clarified.