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Title: | Archive as work-in-progress |
Authors: | Barber, Karin Moraes Farias, P.F. de |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 14-32 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | archives interreligious relations mass media electronic resources information management |
Abstract: | This paper describes an electronic archive being created to investigate the role of the media in the constitution of new religious publics in western Nigeria in the late 1990s. The aim of the project is to capture the arguments, silences and shared ground between Muslim, Christian and traditional constituencies as articulated in their media productions, and to represent these in a multimedia format in keeping with the subject matter. The electronic archive consists of digitized pamphlets, videos, off-air television and radio recordings, newspaper articles, posters, pamphlets and tracts, supported by transcriptions of interviews and questionnaire responses. It was designed to capture a cross section of religiously-oriented media items circulating among the heterogeneous, antagonistic, but often overlapping religious constituencies in Yorubaland, and it focuses on Agbowo, a suburb of Ibadan. The paper discusses the nature of this deliberately created archive as a work-in-progress where the processing of the material is itself a mode of research. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |