iif_kgpm_Dictionary_of_Media

Acta diurnaActa diurna (Acta publica or Actapopuli) the first known newspaper,written on a tablet, which reported onmatters of public interest in ancientRome, after 27 b.c.e.actant in narrative theories, a recurrentrole that manifests itself in storiesacross the world and across time: forexample, a hero, an opponent, a helper,etc. The notion was developed primarilyby the twentieth-century French semioticianAlgirdas Julien Greimas,who claimed that actants relate to eachother in a binary fashion, giving thenarrative its trajectory and plot form:subject vs. object, sender vs. receiver,helper vs. opponent, and so on.actantial theory model of narrativeanalysis based on the concept ofactantaction code 1. code used to describeevents in a narrative; 2. commandsused in computer programmingaction code script (abbreviated asACS) scripting language used insome modem Doom source portsaction genre story that revolvesaround pugilistic action, martial artsaction, or some other form of violentcombat featuring a large number ofaction sequencesaction replay repeat of a brief filmedsegment, often in slow motionaction shot scene involving movementin a film or television programaction theory in some philosophicalsystems, the idea that actions aredifferent from behaviors. The termcomes up occasionally in mediastudies in discussions of the relationbetween media and its effects on humanbehavior.ActionMedia trade name of a digitalvideo system developed by Intel thatallows a computer to record, playback, and manipulate videoactive audience in uses and g r at i-fications theory, the people whodo not accept a media representationor text as it is presented to them, butinterpret it, or interact with it, fortheir own purposes and in their ownway, regardless of the intention of thecreator of the representation or textactive listening manner of listeningto a speaker, group, or media product(such as a documentary, feature film,or television program) so as to takeinto serious consideration the point ofview being put forwardactive participation way in whichmedia intrude upon and influencethe stories they are supposed to bereporting impartiallyactive pixel region area of a computerscreen that displays graphicinformationactive reader in uses and g r at i f i-cations theory, the individual whodoes not read a media representationor text as it is presented to him or her,8