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agency and online media
Definition
- In this day and age of avatars and conversational agents, it has become extremely important to understand the psychological locus and importance of perceived human agency in our mediated interactions. There are two ways in which agency is treated in the literature on communication technologies—(1) as robotic entities, either hardware or software related, that perform tasks for the user, often autonomously (e.g., interface agents that search for information on the Internet, conversational agents with whom users can carry on a dialogue), and (2) as online representations of offline human beings (e.g., avatars, screen names). [Source: Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media; Online Media, Agency and]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/agency_and_online_media
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