Agency is the interaction between technology and humans. Media thrives off of human interaction because it gives it more information about the user. When I think of agency at its most basic level I think of someone doing a google search. The human is interacting with technology by hitting “submit” and then Google does the rest by giving the user a multitude of results. I have seen agency in my own life when I am online shopping for a specific item. Recently, I was shopping for a pair of cowboy boots (a pretty specific item), and then a few days later as I was watching a video that had ads in it an ad for a cowboy boot brand came up. This is how the human and technology interact so that the technology can take some piece of information about you and use it to their advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Agency is the interaction between technology and humans. Media thrives off of human interaction because it gives it more information about the user. When I think of agency at its most basic level I think of someone doing a google search. The human is interacting with technology by hitting “submit” and then Google does the rest by giving the user… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agency"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}