scholarly journals A Survey of Audience Reception of Atọ́ka, A Yorubá Photoplay Magazine

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Clement Adéníyi Akangbé
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
West African ◽  
Reception Theory ◽  
Audience Reception ◽  
Home Video ◽  
Theater Companies ◽  
Southwest Nigeria ◽  
Book Publishers

Atokạ́ is a Yorubá photodrama magazine produced in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria from 1967-1991. Published by West African Book Publishers (WABP) and printed by their sister company, Academy Press, Atoka ̣́ was a bi-monthly magazine which, while it lasted, hit the stands fortnightly. Extensive works have been done on Yorubá drama by several scholars. While some looked at specific theater companies, some studied the selected plays of particular companies, and some others examined the production of certain organizations at a particular phase. Despite these myriad of works, some other production media, particularly the stage, celluloid film, and home video film, have gained the attention of researchers extensively but photoplay in particular, and radio, television, and the phonograph-disc have not been so lucky. Apart from some works (Ogundeji 1981, Aro ́ ́hunmolas ̣́ ẹ ̣ 1982, Adeoye 1984, ́ Bolạ́ ́ji ́ 1985, Adéléke 1995, and Akangbé 2014) that referred to and passed comments on Yorubá photoplay, no one has carried out a seminal study on the history, production, and content of Atoka ̣́ photoplay magazine. None of the aforementioned endeavors focused on the audience reception of Atokạ́ photoplay magazine. By implication, there are very scanty works on the photoplay genre and virtually none on audience reception of Yorubá photoplay magazine. It is this yawning gap that this study intends to fill by studying the peculiarities of the readers of Atokạ́ photoplay magazine. This paper is divided into nine parts, namely: Abstract, Introduction, Overview of Yorubá 140 Clement Adéníyì Àkàngbé photoplay magazine, Reception theory, Methodology, Data analysis, Discussion of findings, Conclusion, and Recommendations.

Translation policy

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-369
Author(s):  
Alireza Jazini
Keyword(s):  
End Users ◽  
Reception Theory ◽  
Audience Reception ◽  
Policy Network ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Policy Model ◽  
Subsequent Research ◽  
Made In

Abstract The translation policy model by González Núñez (2013, 475) comprises three elements, namely “translation management”, “translation practices”, and “translation beliefs”. While the first two elements of this model are straightforward and easy to study in top-down approaches, translation beliefs can relate both to policymakers and policy receivers. However, the distinction has not been clearly made in this model and the element of translation beliefs has been chiefly treated in the literature as though it comes from the top levels of policymaking, hence overlooking the bottom-up aspects of it (see González Núñez 2014, 2016; Li et al. 2017). In order to improve this model, the present paper draws on the audience reception theory (Hall 1973), and shows that the current translation policy model requires a fourth element that I would call ‘translation reception’. The paper draws on the findings of a reception-oriented case study on translation policies in provincial broadcasting in Iran. This study argues that a more inclusive model of translation policy should not only include the authority-level elements of translation management, translation practices, and translation beliefs, but also the element of translation reception on the part of policy receivers. This way, I hope, the end users’ involvement in and contribution to the translation policy network will not be overlooked in subsequent research.

scholarly journals Sex in Stencil Novels Case Study: Readers' Reception of Enny Arrow's Stencil Novel in Surakarta

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariska Puspita Anggraini ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Reception Theory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Erotic Literature ◽  
Before And After ◽  
New Perspective

The phenomenon of sex has always been novel in every era. In Indonesia, for example, Enny Arrow’s stencil novel has been circulating, which has been named as a legend of Indonesian erotic literature. Along with the development of technology, the existence of stencil novels was replaced by DVDs or VCDs, which then continued with the emergence of various sites providing access to pornography. This difference in phenomena certainly makes the meaning of sex for each individual different. This research will analyze the meaning of sex in the stencil novel by Enny Arrow in the eyes of millennial men. The data analysis will focus on social psychological factors using Normand Holland’s literary reception theory. From the data analysis, it can be concluded that there are different views on sexual relations before and after reading the novel. This research is expected to provide a new perspective on the picture of sexuality for modern humans.

scholarly journals Sweet potato as a ruminant feed: Performance of sheep fed mixtures of the forage and root.

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-251
Author(s):  
O. A. Olorunnisomo
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Sweet Potato ◽  
Nutritive Value ◽  
Nitrogen Retention ◽  
Dry Season ◽  
West African ◽  
Feeding Trial ◽  
Weight Growth ◽  
Diet Mixing ◽  
Southwest Nigeria

Scarcity of quality forage during the dry season poses a serious problem to ruminant production in southwest Nigeria. Dried sweet potato (SP) vine and root have the potential to bridge the gap in feed supply for ruminants during this period. In a feeding trial, fifteen male West African dwarf (WAD) sheep were used to estimate the nutritive value of SP forage and root as a basat feed for ruminants during the dry season. Experimental diets consisted of SP forage and root in the following proportions, 0:100, 25:75, 50:50, 75:25, and 100:0 (forage. root). In the first part of the trial, growing WAD sheep were fed experimental diets for twenty weeks. Dry matter (DM) intake and growth rate of the animals were measured in the second part, digestibility and nitrogen balance of sheep fed the experimental diets were measured. Intake, growth rate, digestibility and nitrogen retention improved significantly (P < 0.05) when SP forage and root were mixed in the diet. The DM intake ranged from 1.8 to 4.9% body weight; growth rate, -34.1 to 86.43 g/day; DM digestibility, 64.6 to 70.4%; and nitrogen retained, 29.5 to 51.0%. Performance, digestibility and nitrogen utilization of WAD sheep was highest when SP forage and root formed equal proportions (50:50) in the diet. Mixing SP forage and root in the diet proved beneficial to growing sheep and equal proportions of the forage and root in the diet appear to be the most appropriate combination.

An Experiment in Methodology in a West African Urban Community

1954 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Schwab
Keyword(s):  
Total Population ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
West African ◽  
Early History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
Populated Area ◽  
Southwest Nigeria ◽  
History Of ◽  
Population Numbers

One of the most highly developed and complex cultures in tropical Africa today is found among the Yoruba people of southwest Nigeria. Extending northeast from Lagos, the major coastal port of Nigeria, is a densely populated area comprised of many large communities, characteristic of the Yoruba, whose total population numbers over 3,500,000 persons. The early history of many of these communities is obscure, although it is alleged that many of the contemporary communities had their inceptions in the 17th and 18th centuries. The largest of the 15 or more communities whose populations exceed 40,000 persons is Ibadan, with an estimated 400,000 population. The estimated populations of some of the other Yoruba towns are: Iwo, 86,000; Ogbomosho, 85,000; Oyo, 79,000; Oshbogbo, 70,000; Abeokuta, 54,000; Ilesha, 50,000; and Ife, 45,000. The 1931 Nigeria census indicated that one-third of the Yoruba population lives in the nine largest Yoruba towns.

Ancient History of Technology in West Africa: The Indigenous Glass/Glass Bead Industry and the Society in Early Ile-Ife, Southwest Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 501-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abidemi Babatunde Babalola
Keyword(s):  
Compositional Analysis ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
West African ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Glass Technology ◽  
Ancient Glass ◽  
Southwest Nigeria ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sub Saharan

The technology of glassmaking is complex. This complexity has been cited for the exclusion of the development of ancient glass technology from certain regions of the world, especially Africa, South of the Sahara. Thus, much of the existing scholarship on the technology of ancient glass has focused on the Middle East, Mediterranean, and Southeast and South Asia. Although the discourse on indigenous African technology has gained traction in Black studies, the study of ancient glass seems to have been left mainly in the hands of specialists in other disciplines. Drawing from archaeological and historical evidence from Ile-Ife, Southwest Nigeria, in tandem with the result of compositional analysis, this article examines the first recognized indigenous Sub-Saharan African glass technology dated to early second millennium ad or earlier. The development of the local glass recipe and the making of beads not only ushered in a social, religious, and economic transformation in Yorubaland as well as the other West African societies but also redressed the place of Sub-Saharan African in the historiographical map of ancient global technology and commerce.

scholarly journals West-African Modes of Mobilisations Confronting EU Mobility Regimes

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Söhnholz
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Secondary Data Analysis ◽  
West African ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Transnational Social Movements ◽  
Inherent Part

Abstract: This article explores West-African modes of mobilisations confronting the externalisation of European borders. At the hands of a secondary data analysis, this article critically examined the most recent publications in relation to this topic, guided by the following research question: How do West-African modes of mobilisations challenge EU mobility regimes? This research identified governments, local organisations, (potential) migrants, expelled migrants, media, academia and writers and transnational social movements as relevant actors with different modes of action. This research suggests that there are multiple West-African modes of mobilisations that challenge EU mobility regimes, confront the problematisation of non-sedentary lifestyles and see mobility as a strategy and a solution for a bottom-up process of globalisation and as an inherent part of West-African mobile societies; existing next to African modes of mobilisations that have become part of EU mobility regimes. The objective of this research is to promote future research by increasing the visibility and political agency of the transformative possibilities of African modes of mobilisations.

scholarly journals A mixed framework for new media art reception

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-65
Author(s):  
Michael Filimowicz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
New Media ◽  
Reader Response ◽  
Reception Theory ◽  
Media Production ◽  
Audience Reception ◽  
Media Art ◽  
New Media Art ◽  
Mixed Framework ◽  
Historical Origins

In this essay I propose a theoretical assemblage integrating several discursive perspectives towards audience reception in the context of new media art creation, with a focus on sonic works. After reviewing the historical origins of reception theory in reader response and its later appropriation by communication and cultural studies, I argue that a mixed discursive perspective offers a potential refinement of contemporary reception theory as applicable to new media production, in which technological abstractions and complexities may be rich for purposes of production, but fall short in appreciation and communicative value for an audience

The Audience Reception of Algorithmic Music

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Simoni
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Research ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Reception Theory ◽  
Audience Reception ◽  
Computing Power ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Fixed Media ◽  
Think Aloud Protocol ◽  
Algorithmic Music ◽  
Music Research

Contemporary music research and practice have leveraged advances in computing power by integrating computing devices into many aspects of music—from generative music to live coding. This efflorescence of musical practice, process, and product raises complex issues in audience reception. This chapter employs a comparative analysis in a longitudinal study designed to understand the psychological aspects of the audience reception of algorithmic music. It studies four compositions from the latter part of the twentieth century late, presented on fixed media to avoid variability in musical performance. Using a modified think-aloud protocol to collect data, this study shows that reception theory may be applied to the audience reception of algorithmic music using a cognitive-affective model to further understand the process of decoding of meaning. This study puts forth a robust methodology for future longitudinal and comparative research in the audience reception of music and makes recommendations for further research.

Satzdenken, Indeterminacy and the Polyvalent Audience

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Putzel
Keyword(s):  
Reception Theory ◽  
Audience Reception ◽  
Analytic Processing ◽  
Textual Variants

In this chapter, Steven Putzel introduces Roman Ingarden’s concept of satzdenken – the ‘flow of thinking the sentence’ – to examine the theatricality of Woolf’s sentences. Approaching his selected sentence through audience reception theory, Putzel also engages rich contextual material from Woolf’s preoccupation with Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. His reading historicises textual variants between the first UK and US editions of Orlando, and stages for us his own analytic processing of the sentence – which included consulting the opinion of ‘a few grammarians’, who recommended he ‘rewrite the sentence’.

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