Agency entails the potential to trigger processes of transformation.

More on Agency (from Susanne Eichner, Agency and Media Reception: Experiencing Video Games, Film, and Television)

Agency entails the potential to trigger processes of transformation. This agentive ability is generally inherent in humanity, but varies culturally and in terms of genre, class, education, generation or ethnicity. It is something that can be improved on, but the extend to which an agent is able to deploy agency is constrained by their resources. Agency “gives people knowledge of different schemas and access to different kinds and amounts and hence different possibilities for transformative action” (Sewell 1992: 21). Sewell’s notion of knowledge resources indicates the pro- cessuality of agency, which is also emphasized by Emirbayer and Mische (1998). They regard agency as a temporal process that has three components: past, future and presence.